This is hard! Huang Xiao sighed inwardly.
Breaking through to another realm now was far too difficult.
A breakthrough could not be achieved in a single stride. It required a process, a deep accumulation and consolidation.
Only when his strength had grown and accumulated to a certain degree could he attempt to reach the next realm.
For him, strengthening his divine sense also compensated for his insufficient strength.
When he had faced Fan Liya's divine sense attack earlier, rather than saying his divine sense had been too weak, it would be more accurate to say it had been strong enough, far surpassing his peers and even exceeding some senior experts.
Under normal circumstances, anyone struck by Fan Liya's divine sense attack was as good as dead, especially someone of his strength.
Fan Liya was relatively weak, but that was in comparison to experts of his own generation, such as Leng Guhan and the others.
Aside from those people, how many in the Jianghu could match Fan Liya's strength?
Yet he had survived, and that was all thanks to his powerful divine sense, not because it was weak.
I still need to keep strengthening my divine sense, Huang Xiao thought to himself.
He did not want to encounter something like that again. His divine sense alone really could not fend off an expert like Fan Liya.
Had the Supreme Ghost Stele not been beside him, he would have gone to meet King Yama long ago.
"That should do. It's time I left." Huo Lian rose from the meditation cushion as he spoke.
Huang Xiao hurriedly stood as well. "So soon?"
"I've been here for several days, and what I've gained has exceeded this old man's expectations," Huo Lian said. "You could say I'm returning with a full haul."
With that, Huo