"The leap in cultivation was much smaller this time." Qin Tian carefully savored the newly formed Great Dao Fruit within him, feeling rather wistful.
Finding amusement amid bitterness, he said, "At least this time I won't have to deliberately suppress my cultivation to consolidate my realm."
Looking back, every breakthrough had carried him across several major realms, straight into the Sixth Heaven. Now, breaking through even a single minor realm was a hundred times harder than before.
Upon first entering the Quasi-Emperor realm, the foundations he had accumulated over many years had barely pushed him to Quasi-Emperor Second Heaven before he stalled.
He recalled how he had first slain the Underworld Yin Spirit, then destroyed Feathering Heaven of the Divine Court, and finally faced the Hall Master of Yama. Every battle to the death had elevated his comprehension of the Great Dao to its utmost.
Yet even such profound accumulation had only supported him through two heavenly barriers within the Quasi-Emperor domain. In the Quasi-Emperor realm, each step was another heaven. Ultimately, he had simply spent too few years cultivating.
Of the cultivators in this world, which one did not spend hundreds or thousands of years taking each step forward in the Quasi-Emperor domain?
The foundations he had accumulated before had been exhausted the moment he crossed the threshold into the Quasi-Emperor realm.
When all was said and done, he was merely a sixty-year-old "youth."
Even with heaven-defying opportunities and having devoured the Dao Fruits of several Quasi-Emperors in succession, digesting and absorbing them and comprehending the Great Dao all required time. His current level of comprehension was already his limit, and exhausting his accumulated foundations was only natural.
"Fortunately, I still have a Reincarnation Dao Fruit. Once I digest it completely, it will be enough to raise me