Chapter 760 - 671: Clearing the Field
Although Zhao Xi had only perfected the first nine layers of the Eighteen Layers of Heaven’s Cultivation Method, even he had only cultivated up to the Sixth Layer Heaven.
But...
The statement that it took him sixteen hundred years to cultivate to the Sixth Layer Heaven is not entirely accurate.
During the first sixteen hundred years, Zhao Xi’s progress was gradual, and it’s likely that his Spiritual Realm had already reached the equivalent of the Fourth or even Fifth Layer Heaven.
It was only in the last few decades that he came across a Cultivation Method related to Divine Sense on Blue Star, which allowed him to perfect the system of Spiritual Realm and create the first nine layers of the Eighteen Layers of Heaven’s method. He personally practiced it and completed the cultivation of the Sixth Layer Heaven.
And now, what Gu Jinlai sought was not to imitate Zhao Xi’s sixteen hundred years of elevating his Spiritual Realm to the Sixth Layer Heaven, but rather to stand on the shoulders of a giant and follow the path he had cleared, trying his own method.
In such a case, as the 320 Qingguang were exhausted, his initially entry-level Eighteen Layers of Heaven advanced by leaps and bounds, climbing steadily.
Eighteen Layers of Heaven: First Layer entry-level → Fifth Layer Perfection.
As his Spiritual Realm Discipline advanced, he sensed in the depths of his own spiritual world a spring that seemed to emerge, clearing his thoughts and consciousness.
And as the Spiritual Realm continued to break through and transform, the spring grew larger.
The spring became a pool, the pool turned into a river, and the river evolved into an ocean...