Inside the Dimensional Space, Liam sat cross-legged in the air with his eyes closed, the golden light of Yanxia's Three-legged Crow form washing over him in slow rhythmic pulses.
The breakthrough was close. He could feel it the way you felt a storm before the first drop of rain. Everything was ready except the final push that would tip him over.
He kept his breathing steady and waited.
His mind drifted. He thought about the cultivation boost cards. The duration had run out a few days ago, which meant he had been advancing on natural speed since then but his natural cultivation speed was still faster than any cultivator, thanks to his Constitutions and how dense the Dimensional Space's spiritual Qi had become, but natural speed nonetheless.
He had felt the difference the moment the cards expired. It wasn't weakness exactly, but the particular sensation of moving through water after moving through air.
He thought about the sign-in.
