From that moment on, the bullying came to a stop for the time being.
Time passed and days came and went. Oli, with the help of his Infinite Compression art, was finally able to break through to the peak novice level, becoming the last of his friends to do so.
But he wasn't much happier. If anything, he got even more anxious to reach the adept plane.
Oli knew that the novice plane was by far the easiest to get through. By becoming an adept, Oli would at least be seen as a common cultivator in the rest of the world. Novices were always seen as too weak or too young or both, while young adepts were somewhat considered geniuses.
There was also a common belief about cultivation speed.
However fast someone could clear the entire novice plane would be equivalent to the time it would take to grow a single level in the adept plane. That same rule applied for every plane of cultivation as a rough estimate for average cultivation speed.
