"Good heavens, with that kind of presence, Ancestor Xiaohan must already be at the third level of the Spirit Platform Realm, right?" Liang Haofeng and Sun Yunfei looked at that scene, their expressions somewhat shocked.
Wang Xiaohan was the Ping'an Wang Clan's second Spirit Platform Realm cultivator. Back when he broke through, he had already been well past sixty, and among the many Spirit Platform Realm ancestors of Changning Guard, he had counted as one who achieved greatness late in life.
Yet only nineteen years had passed since he broke through to the Spirit Platform Realm, and his cultivation had surged upward as if he were growing in reverse.
There was no other reason. The Ping'an Wang Clan was simply rich.
Once the Spirit Platform Seeds of most Ninth-Rank Aristocratic Clans broke through to the Spirit Platform Realm, their cultivation resources gradually began to fall short. After all, even merely maintaining cultivation and combat strength required a considerable amount of Spirit Meat and Spirit Rice, as well as medicinal pills to strengthen the foundation and nurture the origin. In a year, they would need to consume at least seven or eight hundred, or even a thousand Qian Gold.
For a poorer Ninth-Rank Aristocratic Clan, after deducting all expenses in a year, whether its surplus could exceed a thousand Qian Gold was still a question.
If a Spirit Platform Realm cultivator wanted to go a step further, that expenditure became a bottomless pit. Spending over a thousand Qian Gold a year was only the beginning, and it could only allow cultivation to grow slowly.
If the Spirit Platform Realm ancestor of a Ninth-Rank Aristocratic Clan opened the floodgates of cultivation in pursuit of rapid progress, then even several thousand Qian Gold a year might not be enough. He would be like