"Haaa..."
Zhu Ju let out a long, turbid breath and slowly withdrew his power.
"How were you so fast?" Pei Jingque, who had appeared at his side at some point, asked with a look of astonishment.
"I thought it would take you a few more years."
With his Outer Body Incarnation, Wukong, one year of Cultivation for Zhu Ju was equivalent to six or seven for anyone else.
At such a pace, breaking through to the Mid-Stage Golden Core was only a matter of time, but she hadn't expected it to be this soon.
"I used a certain Secret Technique, as well as the Spiritual Medicine I've accumulated over the years," Zhu Ju said with a faint smile.
"From now on, it won't be so fast."
It would be far from fast.
To break through as quickly as possible, he had used a Demon Sect Forbidden Technique, completely severing his own path forward.
In other words, unless a miracle occurred, Zhu Ju would have no hope of reaching the Late-Stage Golden Core in this lifetime.
But it didn't matter.
