142: Strength surges again

Every major seclusion, Long Aotian's strength would surge.

Therefore, Long Aotian was very much looking forward to the results he would achieve from his seclusion.

Especially this time, when everyone else on Dragon Peak was in seclusion for fourteen years, with a sevenfold time acceleration.

And him?

Because he was in the third spatial world of the Treasure Pagoda, it was a full twenty years, with a ninefold time acceleration.

He had never been in seclusion for so long as twenty years, and instead of feeling bored, he even had a subtle sense of challenge and anticipation.

In fact, once a Cultivator enters seclusion to Cultivate, there is no sense of time passing; twenty years feels like the blink of an eye and passes quickly, so there is no such thing as boredom.

Long Aotian had often wondered before how those Old Monsters who went into seclusion for decades or even centuries managed to endure sitting there motionless, passing through one boring day after another.

It wasn't until he went into seclusion to Cultivate that he understood.

How could those be boring days?

That kind of peaceful time, carefree, feeling his cultivation constantly rising day by day, feeling his strength constantly growing stronger day by day—that was simply a luxurious enjoyment, a state that one couldn't resist or extricate oneself from!

He was even so immersed in this joy that he forgot the time.

Perhaps this was the true explanation of 'Cultivation knows no time'?

In this major seclusion, the improvement of his Realm was undoubtedly secondary. Currently, Long Aotian was at the Mahayana Realm Seventh Revolution Stage. Twenty years of major seclusion, breaking through to the Mahayana Realm Ninth Revolution Peak Stage, was completely without any pressure for him.

Perhaps a Prodigy like him, if he continued to Cultivate, might even be able to Breakthrough to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm without external help?!

But this was not the outcome Long Aotian desired.

While he could indeed Breakthrough to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm without external help, what then?

The improvement of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm is accompanied by a deepening understanding of the Dao of Profound Truth and the Laws of Heaven and Earth. There would be no problem for him to Breakthrough to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm by himself, but to improve his Realm within the Tribulation Transcendence Realm would be extremely difficult.

The Tribulation Dao Secret Realm is different; it contains all sorts of Dao of Profound Truth and Laws of Heaven and Earth. Some people have even Breakthrough from the Mahayana Realm Ninth Revolution Peak Stage to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm Seventh Revolution Stage within the Tribulation Dao Secret Realm.

The Tribulation Dao Secret Realm opens for three years each time.

Three years in the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, even improving by one minor Realm is an incredible feat, yet some can continuously Breakthrough from the Early Stage of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm to the Late Stage of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.

This is what Long Aotian values about entering the Tribulation Dao Secret Realm!

For him, the Tribulation Dao Secret Realm is a shortcut Secret Realm to quickly improve his Realm within the Tribulation Transcendence Realm!

He did not want to spend thousands or even several thousands of years, like ordinary Cultivators, to Breakthrough from the Tribulation Transcendence Realm First Revolution Stage to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm Ninth Revolution Peak Stage, the level of Ascension.

He must go to the Tribulation Dao Secret Realm!

To enter the Tribulation Dao Secret Realm, he could not Breakthrough to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm during these twenty years of major seclusion.

Why?

Naturally, because there is a rule at the entrance of the Tribulation Dao Secret Realm that explicitly restricts Tribulation Realm Experts from entering.

However, if one is not at the Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivation level before entering, and then Breakthroughs to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm within the Tribulation Dao Secret Realm, the Secret Realm will not teleport them out... For Long Aotian, it was too simple to improve his Realm from the Mahayana Realm Seventh Revolution Stage to the Mahayana Realm Ninth Revolution Peak Stage during his twenty years of major seclusion.

He barely needed to Cultivate diligently; in the fifth year of his seclusion in the third spatial world of the Treasure Pagoda, his Realm had already improved to the Mahayana Realm Ninth Revolution Peak Stage.

After that, Long Aotian basically set aside the improvement of his Realm and began to fully focus on the Dao of Arrays and other auxiliary Cultivation methods.

Integrating Ao Zhan's memories, Long Aotian's auxiliary Cultivation methods such as the Dao of Alchemy, the Dao of Crafting, and the Dao of Talismans became self-taught.

It is worth mentioning that, before this major seclusion, Long Aotian took three tenth-grade Pill Furnaces from the Sect's Treasure Pagoda in the Cloud Palace. In the third spatial world of the Treasure Pagoda, Long Aotian began to frantically learn Alchemy.

At this time, the large batch of high-grade Spirit Medicines he had plundered from Immortal Severing Mountain finally came into great use. Various Medicinal Pills were continuously refined by him, and their grades became higher and higher, their quality better and better.

Before this, Long Aotian's Alchemy level had already reached sixth-grade. Now, after twenty years of major seclusion, and crucially, Long Aotian also split off one hundred and eight sub-Souls to Cultivate together, he directly mobilized thirty sub-Souls to learn and research the Dao of Alchemy together.

Calculating this way, Long Aotian's twenty years of major seclusion, the actual time spent on learning the Dao of Alchemy, amounted to six hundred years.

It was terrifying!

Every six months, Long Aotian would undergo Soul Fusion, and each time he did, Long Aotian's strength would surge by a small margin.

Of course, this small surge in strength might not necessarily manifest in his Realm; it could be a Breakthrough in the Dao of Alchemy, or a Breakthrough in the Dao of Crafting, the Dao of Talismans, the Dao of Arrays, etc.

He already had the Nine Treasures Glazed Chaos World Tower to cheat on Cultivation time, and then he also had one hundred and eight sub-Souls Cultivating together, overcoming Cultivation difficulties together, and feeding the Cultivation results back to his main body—it simply left no room for others to survive.

Six hundred years of learning the Dao of Alchemy, coupled with the Legacy of Ao Zhan's memories, and the massive amount of high-grade Spirit Medicines plundered from Immortal Severing Mountain, by the sixteenth year of his seclusion in the third spatial world of the Treasure Pagoda alone, Long Aotian's Alchemy level had already Breakthrough to the tenth-grade Quasi-Immortal Pill Refiner Realm...