[Status Panel]0

Name: Luo Chen0

Lifespan: 146/5007

Spirit Roots: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth0

Realm: Golden Core Stage Five (30/100); Archaic Beast Tier Three (75/100)0

[Techniques]0

Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture: Proficient (201/300)5

Myriad Path Convergence: Perfected Mastery0

Myriad Beast Sutra: Perfection (375/500)1

[Spells]0

Fourth-Tier0

• Dragon-Slaying Art: Perfected Mastery0

• Nascent Core Art: Perfection (375/500)2

Third-Tier0

• Sevenfold Skyblaze Ring: Grandmaster (700/1000)0

• Life Severing Finger: Beginner (15/100)1

Perfected Mastery Spells (click to view details)3

[Martial Arts]0

Voidburst Step: Grandmaster (575/1000)0

Perfected Mastery Martial Arts (click to view details)1

The simplified status panel appeared before his eyes once more after many years. Even though he had long maintained calm and steady, he could not help but feel a stir at this moment. After settling in Surging Lake, it took him only two years to advance from halfway through the fourth stage of Golden Core to the threshold of the fifth! Every single factor of cultivation had been accounted for in full, so in the three years that followed, his progress did not slow. He advanced at a steady pace and was now thirty percent into the fifth stage. At this rate, he was only six or seven years away from the sixth!3

Such speed would have been astonishing anywhere in the Mountains and Seas Realm. Yet Luo Chen knew this was simply natural—that crow hadn't spouted nonsense when she told him that his speed would be akin to having a heavenly spirit root. 0

It was rumored that cultivators with heavenly spirit roots could establish their foundation in ten years, form a Golden Core in a hundred, and reach Nascent Soul in two hundred. As they advanced, their speed only increased, and bottlenecks...1