Wang Ba opened his eyes groggily, then abruptly jolted upright.
He quickly looked around, sending his Divine Sense outward at the same time.
He discovered that he was actually lying in the fork of a thick tree. Only a handful of old houses stood nearby, looking as though no one had lived in them for a long time.
Wang Ba was bewildered.
"Wasn't I cutting up a Turtle-Tailed Sparrow? How did I suddenly..."
All he remembered was a faint dizziness rising in his head before he lost consciousness outright.
When he woke again, he seemed to be on a mountain summit.
Just then.
A familiar voice drifted into his ears.
"My good disciple, you're awake?"
Wang Ba instinctively looked toward the voice and saw a bare-chested, brawny man sitting cross-legged in a nearby treetop.
"Master?"
That figure was naturally Yao Wudi.
Although he could clearly see him, the place where Yao Wudi stood registered as completely empty to his Divine Sense.
Wang Ba was not surprised. As a Nascent Soul Cultivator, concealing himself from a Foundation Establishment Cultivator like him was far too easy.
Yao Wudi stood, vanishing from the treetop in an instant.
"My good disciple, come down!"
Wang Ba immediately stood and was about to descend when his expression suddenly changed slightly.
"My Second Dantian... has reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage?"
After more than a year of cultivation, his Second Dantian had successfully reached the Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
After Foundation Establishment, however, further progress had slowed considerably. Even if he focused entirely on improving his Second Dantian, reaching the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage would probably take seven or eight years.
Yet to his surprise, after a single sleep, his Second Dantian had advanced straight to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage. Even in his original Dantian, he