In the sixty-third year, Lin Xing, under the control of his Emperor's Divine, struggled in his cultivation. He felt as if his vitality had dried up and that immortal energy inside him was utterly stagnant, his whole body like a pile of withered wood and ash. His cultivation level, too, was at a standstill.
Again and again, he tried to push his cultivation forward, but each attempt ended in failure.
During these repeated trials, Lin Xing distinctly sensed that his Emperor's Divine was missing something crucial in its cultivation, which was why he was continuously unable to ascend.
And this crucial element, he deduced, was the sun—a sun that was sufficiently blazing and dazzling.
Lin Xing had a feeling that the closer this Emperor's Divine came to the sun, the more rapidly the cultivation would advance.
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As the sixty-three years of his lifespan were swiftly consumed, the Emperor's Divine before him had stepped into the Five Transmissions Realm.