On the seventh day of the third month after entering the secret realm, Lia had finally collected whatever she could consume and take outside while settling in a cavern.
The cave only had one entry, and she had placed a few detection, protection, and sensory formations to make the cave safer so that she could finally break through to the next realm.
It didn't take that long for her breakthrough, since she had been preparing for a long time. She took some identified fruits that she had found and ate them to aid in her stabilization of cultivation.
Lia spent the next entire day inside the cave before she was ejected out of the secret realm, giving her ample time to get used to her increase in strength.
"Is this the reason he asked me not to break through? But how did he know that breaking through the Core Strengthening Realm would allow me to exit?"