721: Chapter 721 The Temple of Time!!!

"So that's why," she thought to herself.

She hadn't expected that Qin Yan wouldn't even know about this.

However, upon remembering that Qin Yan had no background, she felt relieved.

He came from a commoner background, without the resources of a Family or the guidance of elders.

It was normal for him not to know many things.

"I can answer this for you," Jiang Li said.

"Many thanks." After saying this, Qin Yan sat up properly, his expression focused.

Jiang Li looked at Qin Yan's serious expression, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

"This guy usually looks like he doesn't care about anything, but in reality, he cares a lot about his strength," she thought.

"In this regard, he is no different from those Prodigies."

"These Prodigies left the Taixuan Holy Land, if I'm not mistaken, to prepare for their Grandmaster Breakthrough and to rapidly increase their strength after reaching the Grandmaster realm," Jiang Li said slowly.

"Prepare for the Grandmaster Breakthrough? Rapidly increase strength after the Grandmaster Breakthrough?" Qin Yan looked confused.

"That's right." Jiang Li nodded, picked up the teacup on the table, and took a light sip.

"A hard requirement for the Grandmaster Breakthrough is that one's Cultivation Technique must reach a certain level of proficiency before one can condense a Golden Body. You should know this, right?"

Qin Yan nodded.

Of course he knew this.

The Grandmaster Breakthrough and condensing a Golden Body require a profound understanding and mastery of one's Cultivation Technique.

If the Cultivation Technique proficiency is insufficient, the Golden Body cannot be condensed, and forcing a Breakthrough will only result in failure, or even Qi Deviation.

He had been continuously adding points to the Five Elements Primordial Scripture, and Skill Points were being poured into it like flowing water.

After ten days of adding points, the progress of his Five Elements Primordial Scripture had only increased by six percent, rising from fifty-three percent to fifty-nine percent.

The hundred percent mark was still far off!

Furthermore, the further one progresses, the more Skill Points are required for the Cultivation Technique. Based on this rate, to go from fifty-nine percent to one hundred percent would take at least seventy or eighty days, over two months.

And this is assuming all Skill Points are invested into cultivating the Cultivation Technique.

"The Cultivation Techniques we practice are the best of the best, but this brings about a problem—the Cultivation Technique improves too slowly, and reaching the proficiency required for the Grandmaster Breakthrough seems like a distant dream."

"You should have a deep understanding of this. After all, your Five Elements Primordial Scripture is notoriously difficult to Cultivate."

Qin Yan nodded again: "You are right."

He knew the difficulty of the Five Elements Primordial Scripture better than anyone.

"Do you mean they went home to increase their Cultivation Technique proficiency? To meet the conditions for the Grandmaster Breakthrough?" Qin Yan asked.

Jiang Li nodded: "Exactly. For example, the Cultivation Technique I practice has a place of Legacy within my Family that can greatly accelerate my speed in comprehending the Cultivation Technique, significantly shortening the time required."

"That place of Legacy was left behind by an ancestor of my Jiang Family, and it contains the Origin imprint of the Cultivation Technique, cultivation insights, and realization for Breakthroughs. Meditating there is several or even dozens of times more efficient than outside."

"This way, I don't need to spend a large amount of time comprehending the Cultivation Technique, and I can do more things to increase my strength—such as cultivating Spear Intent and tempering my Physical Body."

"The Families and forces behind Long Aotian and Lin Ruoxi naturally possess similar Legacy foundations; the principles are all the same. They have been at the Taixuan Holy Land for several months. In these months, they have already grasped the Supreme-Grade Intent they needed to comprehend. By spending some time at home to supplement their Cultivation Technique progress, they can then proceed to the Grandmaster Breakthrough."

Upon hearing this, Qin Yan suddenly understood.

Cultivation Technique proficiency is a hard threshold for the Grandmaster Breakthrough.

This threshold is a chasm for Martial Artists without a background; for Prodigies with a background, it is merely a small ditch.

No wonder these people chose to leave the Holy Land at this time—this was not a coincidence at all, but a standard procedure that every Family Prodigy knew by heart.

When training outside, they would go all out to Cultivate Concepts and accumulate combat experience. Once their Concepts and foundation reached a Bottleneck, they would return to the Family to focus on overcoming the Cultivation Technique proficiency, crossing that threshold as quickly as possible.

This is the foundation of powerful Families—they do not need to walk down a single path to the end like rogue Martial Artists; for every stage of cultivation, there is an optimal path paved by predecessors available for them to choose.

At the same time, he realized even more deeply the importance of having a background.

Having a background is truly great.

Qin Yan took a deep breath, suppressing the waves in his heart.

"Then, does rapidly increasing strength after the Grandmaster Breakthrough also have to do with Family resources?" Qin Yan asked.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Li chuckled: "Yes, and no."

Qin Yan: "???"

What kind of answer is that? If it is, it is; if it isn't, it isn't. What do you mean by yes and no?

"Qin Yan, do you know about the Temple of Time?" Jiang Li did not answer Qin Yan's question, but asked instead.

Qin Yan was slightly stunned. He naturally knew about the Temple of Time. It was a super-powerful force in the Heavens and Myriad Worlds, and the Martial Artists within all mastered the Dao of Time, possessing formidable strength.

Every Disciple of the Temple of Time was a standout among their peers, because the Dao of Time was one of the most difficult to master and one of the most powerful Laws in the Heavens and Myriad Worlds.

It was ranked as one of the seven Supreme Laws!

Immediately, Qin Yan seemed to think of something, his expression becoming somewhat solemn: "Do you mean they all went to the Temple of Time to Cultivate?"

"That's right." Jiang Li nodded, her tone carrying a hint of taking it for granted.

"Once a Martial Artist reaches the Grandmaster Breakthrough, all their personal stats are sublimated, and a Martial Artist at the Grandmaster realm can barely withstand the corrosion of time. Below the Grandmaster realm, staying for a long time in a place like the Temple of Time where the flow of time is abnormal will cause the body to be eroded by the power of time, accelerating aging, or even leading to direct death."

"But above the Grandmaster realm, physical fitness is greatly improved, and one can initially withstand the erosion of the power of time."

"Inside the Temple of Time, there are various Dao fields, treasure lands, and time treasures, and the flow of time there is completely different from the outside."

"Some are fast, and some are slow."

"Some time Dao fields have a flow of time that is several times faster than the outside—you could Cultivate inside for several days or dozens of days, while only one day might have passed outside. This kind of Dao field is suitable for cultivation; it can 'stretch' time, allowing you to obtain more cultivation results in the same amount of time."

"Some time Dao fields have a flow of time that is a fraction of the outside—you could Cultivate inside for a moment, while a day might have already passed outside. This kind of Dao field is not suitable for a Breakthrough."