All the Inner Sect Disciples were stunned.
...But you couldn't blame them for it.
After all, it was common knowledge that the path of Martial Arts grew more difficult the further one progressed.
Countless geniuses and experts had been stymied at every single bottleneck in their cultivation!
The slightest misstep or a reckless attempt at Breaking Through could even result in severe injury...
Therefore, everyone was cautious, more cautious, and then even more cautious when it came to Breaking Through.
Without absolute certainty, no one would dare make a reckless attempt.
Advancing from the True Essence First Realm to the Second Realm was no exception—it had its own bottleneck.
The difficulty lay in the initial formation of the True Essence Nature and its condensation into a True Species. To make it circulate throughout the body, not only did one's True Essence need to be sufficiently robust, but more crucially, one had to unblock the Ren and Du Meridians.
