Zhao Min and Gong Chenying had especially come to understand just how weak they were after their last trip to the ghost domain. Back in the Mortal Realm, when the few of them joined forces and fought with all their lives, they had already been able to battle Spirit Transformation cultivators. That alone had been enough to look down upon the world with pride.
Yet in the Immortal Spirit Realm, they had been chased and beaten by a pack of ghosts, nearly suffering a complete annihilation. Under such circumstances, although Zhao Min and Gong Chenying had never said anything before Li Yan, he could sense the disparity weighing in their hearts.
Later, when Li Yan had to leave to carry out further sect missions, the two women had likewise been unable to help and could only remain within the sect. For the two of them, both possessed of fierce pride, this made them train even more desperately after staying behind.
Li Yan could imagine that after they broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm and their bodies gradually adapted to the laws of the Immortal Spirit Realm, that sort of meteoric rise would steadily fade away, and their cultivation speed would slow once more.
Gong Chenying was somewhat better off. The primary cultivation method she later practiced was the Red Lotus Burning Fire Scripture given to her by Hong Yin, a technique that could extend all the way into the Spirit Transformation Realm.
Zhao Min, however, had quite a few problems. The main technique she cultivated was the Heavenly Demon White Jade Disk, and after Spirit Transformation, it had no further stages. She had also stopped cultivating the Qiongqi Purgatory Art long ago, because she possessed only the first three levels of that technique.
This left both of her cultivation