To tell the truth, there was another reason that delayed Noire from his breakthrough.
Wisdom.
Human practice relied on the communication between humans and the power of heaven and earth. Cultivation is a challenge against the heavens, and breaking through from one great realm to another required a deep understanding of the mechanisms of how the world functions.
Ether Realm, Twilight Realm, and Eclipse Realm.
These are also known as the preliminary stages of Cultivation. First comes the Ether stage, one would enter an ethereal-like state of enlightenment and open up the Dantian with the help of World Energy, and then it is possible to accumulate Qi Essence and advance in the world of cultivation.
Noire has a lot of cultivation methods, knowledge, resources. However, he is akin to the owner of a plane that never had the guidance of a senior.
In the first stage which is Ether, a Dantian is formed. Then comes the Twilight, the spirit consolidates and spiritual awareness expands. After the Twilight step, one can use their own soul as a medium of attacking or defending.
However, as the soul is a delicate and fragile matter, one would temper their soul till the Eclipse Realm as a bare minimum before using Soul Power to confront the enemy.
Currently, Tianshi was taking this step of sublimating the Spirit and Dantian in order to breakthrough from Twilight to Eclipse Realm.
Simultaneously, Yue and Ning'er were constructing their own soul bodies by splitting a shard of the soul and tempering it with World Energy. If one would look above the girls, each had an ethereal-like entity which was a double of the main body levitating by their heads.
Absorbing Qi Essence in large quantities, passing through the meridians and Dantian, then eventually assimilating into the spiritual body.
Noire observed the process with intensive gaze, not daring to miss a single moment.
He can't keep relying on prowess from the 6th dimension lest his current body will crumble and decay due to the harsh recoil.
His only choice is to look for a moment of enlightenment and attempt to form a connection with heaven and earth and bask in the sensual tempering.
Following the commotion of the breakthrough, clouds drifted away in haste as darker clouds accompanied by a loud rumbling noise approached from the horizon.
These clouds had golden lightning smiting the barriers of space as they approached.
Heavenly Tribulation!
Baptism of Heaven and Earth!
Noire watched this phenomenon in awe. He long heard that in human practice, the Baptism of Heaven and Earth is Heaven's way to repel a cultivator from reaching out to the sky.
The stronger the cultivator, the more of a threat they pose to the world and its ecosystem.
If Heaven could retaliate, the cultivation road ends and the human then dies.
If the human could survive, the harvest is abundant.
This moment of receiving the baptism is very important, one can gain enlightenment about the mechanism of Heaven and Earth because the will of heaven is communicating with the laws of the current universe to carry its commands.
Just when Noire was about to receive the epiphany he so needed, a loud rumbling resounded from the ground below.
Frowning, Noire skipped to the edge of the plateau and seemed to penetrate deep into the soil of the forest with his gaze.
Somewhere deep down, a beast that was in a hibernation-like state was gaining back consciousness. Earlier, due to its hibernation, Noire was unable to sense any vitality or power fluctuations. But now, the vitality was sky-rocketing in a terrifying manner.
Ether... Twilight... Eclipse... Celestial!
Noire's complexion instantly changed, this is bad!
If the girls get disturbed in the critical moment of breakthrough, they will become vulnerable punching bags for Heavenly Tribulation, their demise is just around the corner.
However, if he was to skip this opportunity and divert the attention of that beast, god knows when will he get the chance to witness another human practice breakthrough.
Does this mean he'll have to wait until Yue and Ning'er breakthrough to the Eclipse realm?
No! He can't turtle around in the Northern Region until then, he needs to travel closer towards the core continent as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, at the boundaries of the Northern Region, Anastasia was soaring through the clouds at top speed with a malicious grin that expanded further the closer she got to the Raging Cloud Plateau.
Then, she could feel a slight disturbance in Heaven and Earth.
'Signs of breakthrough? Could it be the girls? Good, very good, let's see if I let your breakthrough pass today!'
Anastasia didn't think that her daughter is breaking through, mainly because she's aware of her daughter's situation with the mixed bloodlines.
Numerous thoughts about how to ruin Ning'er and Yue's breakthrough flashed in Anastasia's mind as she began to accelerate further.
Ecstatic. Very ecstatic.