Lucas continued examining the strange energy within his body, carefully tracing its movement through his meridians and dantian while trying to understand how much of his cultivation had changed during his return from the Underworld. At first, he assumed the improvements he had noticed were simply the result of the power bestowed upon him, but as his spiritual sense descended deeper into his cultivation foundation, he discovered something that made him abruptly stop.
His cultivation had advanced.
Not by a small margin, nor by the ordinary progress that would require months or years of refinement, but by an astonishing leap that had brought him dangerously close to a realm he had spent much of his life considering distant.
