Sudden Deadly Threat

Skeletal Elder found it unbelievable!

No one knew better than he did how difficult it was to attain Supreme Power.

It required endless accumulations of resources and unimaginably long years piled atop one another before one could possibly touch the threshold of that realm!

Yet in less than two short months!

The youth who had once needed to rely on the Dao Tablet he left behind to glimpse his future realm had leaped into a Peak Ninth Tier of Immortal Realm Supreme Being, his aura vast and abyssal!!

This speed utterly overturned all common sense! It was simply defying the heavens!!

"Effort and sweat."

Ye Li spoke calmly, brushing aside a topic that would have driven any cultivator mad, then asked thoughtfully:

"How is your condition now?"

Skeletal Elder was still reeling from the immense shock. Only upon hearing this did he come back to himself, replying in a hoarse voice:

"...Not bad."

"But you, little friend—having advanced so rapidly, have you found a way to advance into the True Spirit Realm?"

"No." Ye Li shook his head. "That is giving me a headache too."

"As expected..." Skeletal Elder seemed somewhat helpless, then sighed.

"This old man gave you his lifelong accumulations, along with that [Boundary Token]."

"The medicinal treasure space within the token contains all of this old man's possessions. If you did not find a method for the True Spirit Realm within it... then there truly is none. I am powerless to help."

He turned to look into the distance, his words carrying the desolation of one who had seen through the ways of the world. "Any force or existence regards methods of advancement beyond the Immortal Realm as treasures beyond price, guarding them with the utmost secrecy."

"Without a special opportunity or joining them and taking up