Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

A day after Xuan Hao had completed the main quest, they had managed to make it halfway through a weaker kingdom neighbouring the Iron Sky Kingdom.

During this time, they had encountered a few bandits and demon beasts along the way, but Xuan Hao had dealt with most of them before they managed to reach the group. Only letting a few weaker bandits or demon beasts through for Qing Yi.

Of course, even these weaker bandits and demon beasts had been quite difficult for the current Qing Yi to deal with, as she had ended up in a life and death struggle most of the time. The number of times she was close to dying during this short time period was above a dozen times!

In the end, those bandits and demon beasts had been slain by Qing Yi. Increasing her experience when it came to fighting with her life on the line.

"Let's stop here for the night, we will continue our journey in the morning. I will go out and look around the area to make sure it's safe."

Having come to a small opening inside a small forest, Xuan Hao did not bother waiting for the others to respond, as he directly left them to find a place where he could redeem the cultivation reward from the system.

""…""

The elders did not really have anything to say regarding their sudden break, as they thought Xuan Hao's reason for doing it, was because Qing Yi had been exhausted to the extreme after having fought with all sorts of demon beasts and bandits over the past day. Looking like she was only a single step away from collapsing.

To be honest, if it was not for the fact that Xuan Hao had prevented them from helping her out during those battles, they would have long since stepped in to help her fight off the bandits and demon beasts that Xuan Hao allowed to approach.

However, they also understood that this experience would be extremely beneficial to Qing Yi in the future when she encountered a life and death situation and didn't have her master or any of the elders around to help her out.

With this in mind, the elders slowly began setting up for the night, while Chi Hu specially came over to help the exhausted Qing Yi down her demon beast before finding a nice place for her to sit down and meditate in the opening.

…

At the same time that the elders were taking care of Qing Yi and making sure she was fine and had a good spot to recover from her earlier battles, Xuan Hao found a small empty cave located just a few hundred meters away from the opening in the forest.

"This should do…"

Muttering this to himself, Xuan Hao entered the small empty cave before hiding the entrance with his domain.

[Redeem cultivation of two minor realms]: [Y/N]

"Yes!"

Sitting down inside the small cave, Xuan Hao cleared his head of any distracting thoughts before redeeming the cultivation increase part of the main quest reward.

Fwoosh!

Following the cultivation reward being redeemed, Xuan Hao felt a terrifying energy appear inside his dantian before it directly began merging together with his soul, refreshing his mind immediately.

<br/>With that, he was incredibly focused as his brain began to process information at an even faster rate than before. At the same time, Xuan Hao also felt his comprehension had increased by a terrifying degree. Even more than the time he had consumed the Source Crystal to breakthrough to the Domain Lord Realm!

Whoosh~!

It felt as though a brand-new world had appeared before his eyes, as the strength of both his sword and ice domain suddenly began increasing rapidly.

In a short moment, Xuan Hao's cultivation passed through the barrier separating the Fourth Stage of the Domain Lord Realm and the Fifth Stage of the Domain Lord Realm before continuing towards the Sixth Stage of the Domain Lord Realm!

During this short period of time, his dantian had begun expanding at a terrifying speed to accommodate the sudden increase in qi that seemingly appeared out of nowhere through the help of the system.

Boom!

Not long after breaking through to the Fifth Stage of the Domain Lord Realm, Xuan Hao directly passed through the barrier separating the Fifth Stage and the Sixth Stage of the Domain Lord Realm. Officially reaching the Sixth stage of the Domain Lord Realm!

However, this was not the end as his cultivation continued increasing even further, until it finally came to a stop at the Peak of the Sixth Stage of the Domain Lord Realm.

"Not enough…"

Feeling a bit reluctant upon realizing that he was only a single step away from the seventh stage of the Domain Lord Realm, yet the help from the system that had increased his comprehension had slowly begun to disappear after he reached Sixth Stage of the Domain Lord Realm.

Not only that, but he also felt that the endless stream of pure qi that had been supplying him during his breakthrough drying up.

"No, I can't just stop here!"

Not wanting to give up when he was already so close to reaching the seventh stage of the Domain Lord Realm, Xuan Hao wanted to breakthrough to the seventh stage!

Even if his cultivation base was extremely unstable after directly breaking through two minor realms within the span of only a few short minutes, Xuan Hao did not want to stop when he was so close to reaching the seventh stage…

Not to mention, the seventh stage of the Domain Lord Realm was considered one of the three major thresholds of the Domain Lord Realm, with the barrier between the third and fourth stage being one and the last being the barrier between the eighth and ninth stage.

Whoosh!

Having made up his mind, Xuan Hao took out the Soul Grade Qi Gathering Pills that he had made during the small challenge with Fang Shi before directly swallowing all of them at once.