Li Yan understood perfectly well that when Hong Yin said it would not be slow, she meant her breakthrough to the Void Refinement Realm would be extremely fast—perhaps even faster than his own.
When Hong Yin had successfully ascended, she had already been a Spirit Transformation cultivator. Compared with his own starting point when he first sensed the rules of this new world of the Immortal Spirit Realm, her foundation was better by who knew how many times.
Strictly speaking, Hong Yin herself was a veteran Spirit Transformation cultivator. For her cultivation to return to the Spirit Transformation Realm could only be considered recovery. Her understanding of many Heavenly Dao rules had long since become something newly advanced Spirit Transformation cultivators could not compare with at all, and she was nothing like him, who still had to cultivate bit by bit to perceive them.
Moreover, the Heavenly Dao reward the Immortal Spirit Realm granted ascended cultivators would make their comprehension even keener, and Hong Yin's aptitude was also excellent. With so many conditions layered together, the speed at which Hong Yin would break through to the Void Refinement Realm was already easy to imagine.
"...After I broke through to the Void Refinement Realm, I began putting most of my time into tracing clues. That search lasted several hundred years.
Facts proved that choosing temples and nunneries as my point of breakthrough was not wrong in direction. Later, I truly did find clues related to Jingting.
What surprised me was that after following that clue onward, I discovered Jingting had actually gone to a sect called the 'Huafu Sect,' and had entered that sect, becoming one of its disciples.
Although the 'Huafu Sect' is a sect mainly composed of female cultivators, it is not a Buddhist sect. Did that not mean