"A secret skill to delay the Immortal Thunder Calamity?"
The Phoenix and Xuanwu, upon hearing this, were both very interested.
Mahayana is the last step on the path to becoming an immortal; it's the culmination of a cultivator's lifelong cultivation and divine skills. After breaking through to the Mahayana period, one's actual combat power is basically set in stone.
Thereafter, unless one cultivates a heaven-defying divine skill or obtains treasures like those from an Immortal Mansion, there will be no further increase in strength.
One could even say the number of calamities a Mahayana monk can ultimately survive and whether they can ascend to become an immortal are decided at the time they break through to Mahayana; their potential is already fixed and unlikely to change significantly.
In other words, the fact that this Five Elements Qilin can withstand up to the seventh calamity is not because its cultivation is still improving.
