Lu Buzheng's comment reminded Lu Yin of something. "Third Uncle, of the thirteen Semi-Progenitors, who do you think is the most likely to break through and become a Progenitor first?"

Lu Buzheng thought for a while. "It's possible for several of us to attempt a breakthrough…"

He suddenly hesitated and looked over at Progenitor Smoke. "Senior, you should understand this process much better than any of us."

Even though Lu Buzheng was someone from the Heavens Sect era that far outdated Progenitor Smoke, he had been frozen in the sourcebox for countless years. Thus, the number of years that he had actually lived for could not compare to Progenitor Smoke’s. This was also not even considering the fact that the woman’s cultivation far surpassed Lu Buzheng’s.

She was happy at the acknowledgement, and she gave the man a smile. She had wanted to sneer when she heard him start talking; what gave any Semi-Progenitor the confidence to speak of the Progenitor realm?

"Breaking through to become a Progenitor doesn’t depend on how long a person’s been cultivating, nor their combat power. It all depends on how well a person can control their own power and their understanding of the universe. You must have already heard that Progenitors can alter the universe, but this is actually referring to how breaking through to become a Progenitor allows a Semi-Progenitor’s inner world to transform to the point where it can replace a part of the universe," Progenitor Smoke said.

"There are some people who might be peerless within their realm,...