Months passed in the blink of an eye, and the mood among the sect's outer disciples was festive.
The arena slowly filled up as the elders made preparations, adjusting the spirit arrays and ensuring that nothing would go wrong in the duels that would begin in a few hours.
Qingyi was oblivious to all of this.
His eyes were tightly closed as he circulated his Qi, already ready for the Foundation Establishment realm.
Unlike breakthroughs within the same realm, breakthroughs between realms were much more difficult.
The Foundation Realm itself was one of the most challenging bottlenecks for a cultivator to break through.
A young talent could reach the ninth stage of the Qi Refinement Realm before the age of eighteen and be considered a great genius, but even then, they could easily spend their entire life just trying to break through to the Foundation Realm.
That was the challenge of advancing to the Foundation Realm, and it was only the beginning.
