After returning to the Real World, Qin Tian sat in meditation for half a day. He dimly discerned his enemies' true identities.
Perhaps they were darkened versions of the Three Pure Ones!
Realizing this, Qin Tian felt a sense of urgency. He began cultivating quietly, using the Eight-Nine Arcane Art as his foundation and blending in the Jade Void Golden Chapters to adjust his Inner Scenery, forging his own path within the Eight-Nine Dao.
After borrowing the power of his original self in Shrouding the Heavens to return from death, Qin Tian's cultivation had broken through once again. He had now opened seven apertures. In just three months since first setting foot on the path of cultivation, he had already covered what took others years.
And this was the result of Qin Tian deliberately slowing his pace.
During occasional moments of leisure, he would also settle his mind and sample the local delicacies. Between tension and relaxation, his understanding of the Lifetime Law grew ever deeper.
Although he remained at seven apertures, cultivation realms were, to him, merely steps he could cross with a lift of his foot.
If he wished, he could open all nine apertures at any time, bring his Inner and Exterior Scenery together, and ascend to heaven in a single step.
He lingered at the Aperture Opening Stage partly to explore the mysteries of the Lifetime Law, and partly to fashion an Exterior Scenery Dharma Manifestation suited to himself. This concerned his future path of cultivation, and he could not afford the slightest carelessness.
As time passed, a magnificent, sacred Dharma Manifestation emerged within his heart.
That day, Qin Tian had just finished laying waste to the delicacies of a large city and was on his way to another.
A tall young man blocked the