On the upper floor of a building, Selena, who had spent the last day cultivating the cores she'd harvested from Forsaken, had finally reached a turning point in her cultivation.
'A little more... I'm almost there,' she thought, feeling the next stage drawing closer with every passing moment.
She'd already come close to this point the day before, but she'd since discovered that this last stretch was far harder to close than she'd expected. She'd had to burn through an entire core just to narrow the gap to this stage, an amount many times greater than what it had taken her to reach that same point in the first place.
It was clear the gap between mid-stage and advanced-stage wasn't small. But that hardly mattered.
She'd managed to stockpile enough of those strange pearls to cultivate at her own pace, in peace. The only things she really needed were patience and time.
Two things she had no shortage of.
