Sixty years later, after being swept out of Ethereal Mountain, everyone stood stunned in the void.
Some had gained nothing.
Rather, most of them had gained nothing.
Some had obtained a few Immortal Herbs and Immortal Fruits, but these had not been picked inside the immortal botanical garden. They had been gathered in the wilds of Ethereal Mountain.
He Pingsheng looked at the location beneath his feet.
After sixty years, this was no longer the place where they had first entered Ethereal Mountain.
After all, the mountain was constantly drifting.
"Let's go!"
He Pingsheng returned to his Lone Pine Mountain!
Next came research!
He strengthened the items brought back from the Immortal Realm, studied the writing of the immortals, and extracted temporal Daoist law from the [Hundred-Convergence Heavenly Light Formation] to comprehend and cultivate it.
Of course, most importantly, he also took out the corpses of the three Unbound Immortals, refined [essence blood] of the ninth grade from them, then tossed that essence blood into the Treasure-Gathering Basin to begin strengthening it.
Thus, day after day passed!
Year after year!
Before he knew it, thirteen hundred years had passed!
The cultivation bottleneck within He Pingsheng suddenly broke open just like that.
How had he broken through it?
He did not know!
He Pingsheng did not know either.
This time, he had neither consumed Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures capable of breaking through a bottleneck, nor comprehended anything, nor faced a desperate life-or-death situation.
Yet the bottleneck had opened just like that.
When the water flowed, the channel formed!
He Pingsheng's cultivation finally reached the twelfth layer of the Mahayana Emperor Realm.
After thinking it over, He Pingsheng felt that bottlenecks did not necessarily have to be overcome through those three methods: Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, life-or-death crises, and comprehension.