"I'll tell you one thing," the voice continued, "those who successfully master the Preserving Essence barrier will mostly set foot into the Ultimate Happiness Realm someday. And the strong people who will step into the Daoist Transformation Realm in the future are the ones who, at their first refinement, pass through both the Preserving Essence and Absorbing Qi barriers with full effort... However, this is extremely difficult, I've heard that Duobao, that tortoise, has only preserved essence to the full extent and absorbed qi to six out of ten."
"You, lad, possess the Spirit Treasure Sublime Body and are aided by the Fortune of the Human Dao. I believe you can match Duobao..."
Yuan Gong finished speaking but did not receive a response from Tao Qian.
It was because he finally could not withstand the urging of the mana within his body and the Lifebound Scripture, needing to assimilate the gains from the Breakthrough, the opportunity for his first qi refinement had come.
