Only upon reaching the inscription realm did cultivators truly lift a corner of the Dao's unfathomable veil and begin to achieve genuine sublimation. Inscription realm cultivators already possessed lifespans of over a thousand years.
Cultivation in the inscription realm was extremely difficult. Usually, advancing through each minor stage took as much time as the earlier breakthrough from the spirit transformation realm to the inscription realm.
If someone had spent twenty years in the spirit transformation realm, then each subsequent minor-stage breakthrough would take at least twenty years.
This was the conclusion cultivators of the Great Wilderness had drawn, but it meant nothing to geniuses.
Xiao Tian, for instance, had reached the minor inscription realm the moment he broke through-in other words, the middle inscription realm.
In the Great Wilderness, where young Marquis-Sealing experts were rarely seen, one had now appeared, effortlessly entering the minor inscription realm at sixteen.
More importantly, with Xiao Tian's combat strength, he was already invincible within the inscription realm, firmly at the Marquis-Sealing level.
Moreover, Xiao Tian had a feeling that it would not be long before he reached the greater inscription realm, or even perfection. Perhaps he would achieve it while he was still sixteen.
The runes within his body were awakening. The Calabash Brothers' innate divine abilities had become the great tree's main trunk among the runes that constituted his body, while the other runes were merely its branches and leaves.
The origins of the Calabash Brothers' abilities had all been further strengthened and revived.
For example, the three powerful water origins Water Baby had nurtured had originally consisted of one drop each. Now, each had become a small puddle containing at least a hundred drops.
Red Baby's innate grotto, for instance, had undergone an expansion like the opening of heaven and earth, becoming