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"*I must be overthinking.*"
"*Even if my promising disciple mastered the Space Rules, stepping into the seventh layer would be a breeze.*"
"*But breaking through from the seventh to the eighth is not that easy...*"
Chikun Star Lord comforted himself.
He thought of the countless opportunities he had encountered, including seizing a juvenile Starry Sky Wanderer Kun, yet reaching the eighth layer was still incredibly difficult.
*Even if Lin Yuan's aptitude surpassed his own back then, facing the eighth layer's bottleneck, he surely couldn't just leap over it, could he?*
"*Alas...*"
"*Sometimes having such a monstrous disciple makes being a mentor rather dull...*"
Chikun Star Lord sighed.
...
Inside the palace of the Thirteen Peaks.
"The Red Spirit Fluid has arrived..."
Lin Yuan gazed at a small flask before him.
The small flask was a spatial storage treasure, appearing only palm-sized, yet it contained enough Red Spirit Fluid to fill a small pool.
"Let's begin."