A full year went by, and the new disciples did not disappoint their master. The cat broke through to the Xiantian Realm, while the wolf was already at the peak of the Origin Realm, just one step away from the Xiantian Realm. After the Origin Realm and the Purification Realm of the beast path, both the beast and human paths followed similar realms, starting with the Xiantian Realm. The only difference lay in how one cultivated within these realms and the specific type of qi absorbed.
When the wolf reached the peak of the Origin Realm, he hit a stubborn bottleneck that would not budge no matter what he did. The cat constantly mocked the wolf for having poor talent, but the wolf felt this was not a problem of innate capability, as he had been slowly but surely increasing his talent through rigorous cultivation. Instead, the wolf felt that he had neglected his core belief in vengeance, and his will to cultivate was eroding slowly but surely as a result.
