In the blink of an eye, Lu Ren had already spent a year in the Ancient Forbidden Zone.
Over the past year, Lu Ren had gathered twenty Eighth-Grade Battle Marks. His cultivation had long reached the bottleneck of the Mid-Stage Eighth-Step Supreme Realm, and he could break through at any time.
I might as well find a place to enter seclusion first. Once I break through to the Late-Stage Eighth-Step Supreme Realm, I'll begin moving again!
Lu Ren thought to himself.
Here, he could encounter Ninth-Rank Indestructible Battle Souls at any moment. If he entered the Late-Stage Eighth-Step Supreme Realm, dealing with them would no longer be so strenuous.
With that in mind, Lu Ren found a secluded place and entered the Reincarnation Ancient Pagoda, where he began cultivating by comprehending the Immortal Path Origin.
Although this was the Ancient Forbidden Zone, an abandoned Divine Dao world,
the origin powers of all the Great Daos had already seeped into it.
Here, cultivators of every Great Dao could still cultivate.
Lu Ren cultivated in seclusion within the Reincarnation Ancient Pagoda for a full thirty years before finally breaking through the bottleneck and entering the Late-Stage Eighth-Step Supreme Realm.
His Dao Rhyme surged once more, becoming at least three times stronger than it had been in the Mid-Stage Eighth-Step Supreme Realm.
Lu Ren opened his eyes and slowly restrained the aura of his Dao Rhyme. Smiling, he said, "With my current strength, I might be able to fight a Ninth-Rank Indestructible Battle Soul!"
Lu Ren immediately emerged from the Reincarnation Ancient Pagoda and ended his seclusion.
Thirty years of seclusion meant that three years had already passed in the outside world. He had to speed up and gather more Battle Marks.
However, just as Lu Ren was about to set off,
intense