Chapter 1745 Quick Progress
Alex decided to break through to the Saint Soul 7th realm as fast as he could. However, by the end of the Saint Soul 6th realm, Alex felt the instability return to his cultivation base.
It was still only a feeling, but it was a feeling he understood and recognized immediately.
"What is unstable?" Alex wondered. It wasn't right, but he decided to stop and do an experiment to see what was up.
It had only been a month since he had last broken through, so a lot could be a problem. In this case, it was time for him to go through each problem and check.
Alex first made a list of all the things that could give him the feeling of instability in his body.
Mainly, there were 5 things in general that one could improve before their cultivation base was stable.
They were Dantian, Meridian, Blood, Body, and Spirit.
When all of these aspects of one's being were ready, only then did a person feel their cultivation base be stable.
Alex knew for a fact that Dantian was the most important, followed by the Meridians. But of the last 3, he did not know the order of importance at all.
Maybe it was dependent on what needed more help. Maybe there was none more important than the other? Or maybe he just had more to learn about these three.
Alex knew for certain blood was important, not because of Blood aura, but because of Blood Essence.
"What is my instability from then?" Alex wondered. He decided to try out and improve everything one by one until the instability went away.
First came his body.
Alex got the Mountain Crushing artifact back from his father, who had been using it for the past many months with a very impressive result.
While his cultivation base had yet to hit even the Saint realm, his body cultivation had already crossed the threshold of the Saint Transformation realm and went beyond it.
Especially with the artifact that Alex had brought back, the improvement he had shown was so massive, that Graham had legitimately become one of the strongest individuals in the entire Southern Continent.
Besides, if his Dantian, something that held the Yang source and Yin bead had indeed required to be ready for just the Saint Soul 7th realm, even if it had the Saint Transformation 7th realm equivalent strength of Qi, it would have been laughable.
His Nascent Soul had not been the answer either, because Soul, just like Qi, was something that improved after the breakthrough.
So in the end, Alex came to the conclusion that it had in fact been his meridians that had stopped him from progressing.
Once Alex figured that out, he got back on track with his cultivation schedule, using the beast core only once in a while to give himself a massive boost instead of each time.
Following the routine, within the next 2 months, he managed to reach the Saint Soul 7th realm as well.
Alex's improvement came at a quick rate as he continued at a steady pace and reached the Saint Soul 8th realm after 3 and a half months of cultivation.
Then after that, he ran into a bit of instability once again and had to take a slightly longer time to deal with it, which ended up taking him about 5 months.
Alex's speed in cultivation was fast, but that was not the only thing he had been focusing his time on.
Alex did 2 very crucial things in between his cultivation, or whenever he could find the time.
First, he improved his body cultivation as high as he could. For the past year, he had focused as much time as he could squeeze into his breaks to cultivate this way.
In fact, from time to time, he had even asked his aunt to employ a time-dilation field so he could stay in the Mountain Crushing Artifact for days without having to worry about wasting too much time.
He could only do it once every 2 weeks or so, as using that much time aura left Liz with a headache and a need to take some rest.
Secondly, Alex focused on making blood beasts. With so many cores with him, he had to make as many beasts as he could make.
Alex even requested Bai Jingshen to get him some if he could, and the White Tiger brought back a few dozen beast cores.
The beasts that came from the cores that Bai Jingshen brought back were surprisingly similar to the beasts that lived in the Demonic Forest of the Northern Continent.
Alex asked him if that was where he found these cores, but the Tiger wouldn't answer.
In the end, Alex could only focus back on himself and proceed to break through to the Saint Soul 9th realm, however long it may take him to do so.