Chapter 246: Strength Growth, Fourth-Rank Divine Powers (Three updates of 10,000 words each, please subscribe!)

Time hurried by like a flowing river; cultivation knew no years, and the span of a little over two months vanished in a blink.

For cultivators at the Unity Realm, lifespans were exceedingly long, where a single session of secluded meditation could last years, even decades, or longer.

Indeed, upon reaching the Heavenly Realm, one session of retreat might equate to the entire lifetime of a mortal, or it could be even more enduring.

Cultivation required not just talent and insight, but time, or rather patience, was also extremely crucial.

This was why there were late bloomers who soared above the rest later on in life, because of this very principle.

While two months had passed in the Saint Realm, thanks to the Time Dilation Cauldron and its one-to-ten flow of time, Gu Chen had been in seclusion for over six hundred days.

The Flower of Marvelous Method had long been exhausted—he couldn't sustain such a lengthy retreat even by consuming it bit by bit.