Only after the Gui Water True Scripture had been driven forward by a breakthrough in a major realm did faint traces of enlightenment emerge. Yet the Five-Element Wheel within his body had still not formed, so this technique's breakthrough would still require time and steady tempering.
The Sacred Soul Transformation progressed even more slowly. It was a technique Li Yan had re-derived and expanded himself, requiring him to revise it while cultivating, making it increasingly conform to the workings of heaven and earth's laws until it finally reached the state of "union."
Breaking through to the Body Integration Realm was already so difficult; what about the Tribulation Transcendence Realm? Dong Fuyi had once said that the Five Immortals Sect's techniques would make breakthroughs in later major realms somewhat easier than those of other sects.
That was only relative. Didn't Master Dong Fu and Martial Uncle Qian Zhong also remain in secluded cultivation and bitter training all this time? Even after such a long period since Li Yan had left the sect, they were still seeking a breakthrough.
From this, one could imagine how difficult it was for cultivators of other sects to break through to the Body Integration Realm, let alone the Tribulation Transcendence Realm beyond it. Even in super sects, such people were truly as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns!
Yet Elder Hao and Elder Tang had still cultivated to the Body Integration Realm despite Dizhen Domain being inaccessible, and they had even continued advancing step by step. In Li Yan's eyes, all of them were heaven-gifted talents, yet now they too had been blocked, unable to move forward.
"How many can truly walk the immortal path to its end? Perhaps I am merely wind that blew past along the way. In the end, my name will