The Path to the Next Beast

What's my plan now, you might wonder? Well, even though I had some idea of what I was supposed to do, I had no clue where to even start. Time passed slowly, and whenever I had a moment, I would stop to cultivate, to study the laws of life and death. With each passing day, my power grew, but life itself remained too hard to comprehend. It was as though it was so profound that it would take years—perhaps even centuries—to grasp fully. No matter how close I felt myself to be to the next realm in cultivation, I couldn't quite touch it.