Hua Ling snorted. Could a supreme treasure of heaven and earth be lumped together with cultivators?
Nie Li snorted as well and declared with absolute confidence that someone with a Heavenly Spirit Root who remained in the Earth Mandate Realm for one year would reach at least the Heavenly Star Realm in the future. Two years meant the Heavenly Transformation Realm, and three years meant at least the Dragon Path Realm. Once they remained there for more than five years, the essence they accumulated would be enough to attempt a breakthrough into the Martial Ancestor Realm.
He directly asked Xiao Yu how many years he had lingered at this threshold.
Xiao Yu answered that this was exactly his fifth year.
Nie Li immediately cupped his hands in congratulations, saying that Xiao Yu would soon break through into the Heavenly Mandate Realm. After his breakthrough, his cultivation would advance by leaps and bounds, beyond anything certain mediocrities could hope to match.
Hua Ling grew a little flustered. He only had an Earth Spirit Root, after all, and had never heard of these matters concerning Heavenly Spirit Roots. He could only put on a brave front and say, "A fool's dream."
Xiao Yu quietly leaned closer to Nie Li and asked in a low voice whether that was really true.
Nie Li told him that he had made it up. However, Nie Li knew that Xiao Yu's soul had already been tempered to a certain level, and that he was not far from breaking through into the Heavenly Mandate Realm. Moreover, like the Nether Realm Controller, he cultivated the Myriad Dao Roaring Dragon Art. This cultivation art followed an overwhelming, domineering path and was certainly no weaker than Nie Li's Heavenly Dao Divine Art.
Just then, someone from the Minor Heavenly Origin