Old Man Huan's mission came at just the right time, as Li Fan just happened to feel that he had reached a bottleneck in his cultivation.
This wasn't an act; from the early stages of Qi training and foundation building to the Golden Core, and even breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm, he didn't have to put in much effort. The reason for such swift progress, aside from various innate abilities and supernatural techniques, was that the actual gap between realms in the early stages was quite small—needing only a certain amount of cultivation and spiritual Qi to level up, which was not a problem at all compared to the current illusory world where spiritual Qi was recovering like the virtual moon in the sky.
