Time Passed By

Like a flying arrow, time passed by and years slipped away.

Having used the Devour divine ability resulted in the drastic surge in Tang Xiu's cultivation level to the late-stage of Crossing Tribulation. But at the same time, it also brought him latent dangers as well. The drastic surge in power without step-by-step cultivation left him unable to control his own power at will and barred him from being able to unleash the full strength of the sixth minor stage of Stars Heavenly Essence. Further, his body strength was also unable to reach the level of strength that could be attained after going through normal cultivation.

3 years passed by.

Tang Xiu only left the Nine Dragons Island once during this time when he and the still injured Gu Yan'er took the exquisite pagoda to the "Crossroad of the Sea" in the Straits of Malacca to transfer all 35,680 sentient plant beings there to the pocket world in Longquan Mountain.