Of course, while Xiao Hua experienced Huang Yi's pain, he also briefly looked through the Ghost Cultivator inheritance she had left behind. The inheritance was truly vast, and Xiao Hua did not examine it closely at all. He merely selected things that interested him and that he could cultivate, such as the Talisman curse technique, for study and practice.
In particular, he found a secret art capable of attacking divine sense—the Soul Thorn. It was precisely the sort of technique Qian Diheng and the others had described as achieving the same end by a different path from the Daoist sects.
Three years might have been a long time for ordinary mortals, but to cultivators like Xiao Hua, it was truly fleeting. He had only gained a basic understanding of some spells and had even just begun cultivating them.
As for Xue Xue, she truly puzzled Xiao Hua. The reason Xiao Hua could not establish his foundation was because he needed to cultivate to the eighteenth layer of Qi Cultivation, not because he had failed to make progress. Yet although Xue Xue had meditated in the quiet chamber beside Xiao Hua every day for the past three years, she had still been unable to establish her foundation. If Xun Shu and Qian Diheng truly lacked the opportunity for Foundation Establishment, Xue Xue did not. She had long since consumed Zhong Yaoru, and even her Zhe Lei Evasion had improved somewhat. Why, then, could she not establish her foundation? Perhaps Foundation Establishment truly was a hurdle for cultivators. Even with every preparation in place, without the proper chance, it would all still come to nothing.
Compared with Xue Xue, the changes at Tianmen Mountain were far greater. Setting aside the damaged formations that Xiao Hua had repaired, Huang Yun and Yang Fan