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In the days that followed, Lü Zhong's life returned to a state of peace.
It was a peace that bordered on tedious.
Fortunately, he was already used to this kind of life.
A person's life wasn't filled with so much fighting and killing. As long as one didn't actively seek out excitement, it wasn't difficult to live a good, quiet life.
「Three years later.」
「Tide Cave, Quiet Chamber.」
Lü Zhong emerged from his meditative state and slowly opened his eyes, his expression tinged with bitterness. 'The Core Formation Realm really is difficult to cultivate. It was already obvious in the early stages, but I never thought it would get even harder in the Middle Stage... As my cultivation progresses, my training speed is slowing down more and more.'
In three years of seclusion, his cultivation had improved less than it had in the first six months after his breakthrough.
A situation like this was clearly a bottleneck.
The bottleneck stemmed from his innate aptitude.
