In the following week, the four of them stayed behind closed doors, immersed in cultivation. It is worth noting that Yi Luo Xiang had successfully broken through to the realm of Bronze Six Stars, while Xin Yun still remained at Bronze Five Stars, with some distance to go before making a breakthrough.
Cultivation is always easier in the early stages and becomes more difficult later on. The speed of advancement is very fast at first, but the higher one climbs, the harder it becomes to improve—not just at each level, but at each star within those levels as well.
The reason Xin Yun's speed of advancement had slowed down was twofold: for one, his talent, aptitude, and potential simply couldn't compare with Yi Luo Xiang's; on the other hand, he was using a 9.9-grade Dragon Creation Stone, which naturally made advancement much more difficult than for those using Ninth Grade stones.
