A month later, before the gates of Yanyuan City, a tall, lean cultivator with roughly the cultivation of the mid Qi Cultivation fourth layer descended from the sky. Standing outside the city gates, he calmly stared at Yanyuan City.
This cultivator was none other than Xiao Hua!
Having decided not to use Xihuang Town's Teleportation Array and to fly to Yanyuan City solely by his own power, Xiao Hua was in no hurry along the way. He cultivated during the day and flew at night. After consuming more than sixty Jinglian Pills and cultivating bitterly for a month, he had finally raised his cultivation to the middle of the Qi Cultivation fourth layer!
"Sigh, cultivation truly isn't ordinarily difficult!" Xiao Hua looked at Yanyuan City in the distance and thought. "Back when I was at the second and third layers, it felt like I could improve whenever I cultivated. Why did it become difficult once I reached the Qi Cultivation fourth layer? If this is already the case, then after entering the middle stages of Qi Cultivation, won't it become even harder after the Qi Cultivation fifth layer? It seems that... even with Jinglian Pills and Gui Ji Pills, I'll need an extremely long time to reach the later stages of Qi Cultivation! I need to think of a solution!"
"Sigh, no matter what, I'm still alive. As long as I kept my life, I could naturally continue cultivating. Cai Zhuoxia... even if she wanted to cultivate, she no longer had the chance!"
"Yanyuan City's gates remain the same, and the cultivators entering and leaving are still as bustling as ever. But... who could know that a female cultivator who came here a month ago was no longer among the living?"
*"I should hurry and find someone to ask where