Plus, ever since he found out about that so-called rift, he'd been pondering over it.
Because he couldn't find a way to get stronger in the real world.
As for cultivation, his talent was painfully average. He'd tried before—though he could rely on repeated resets to accumulate experience, realization and comprehension weren't things that could be stockpiled.
And with his level of talent, there was no hope at all for imparting the talisman teachings.
Even if he forced his way forward by accumulating enough foundation through resets, talent was a hard ceiling—he'd never get a decent talisman.
This had nothing to do with whether the Three Mountains and Five Ridges gatekeepers would be stingy; it was purely his own problem.
Martial training—again, just average talent, though he'd also practiced bitterly.
But accumulated experience couldn't replace putting in the hard work. One time, his experience and physical state were so mismatched, he even managed to get himself killed.
