The breakthrough to the Primordial Spirit Realm was never a challenge for Alkaid.
If it weren't for his deliberate delaying to level up, he would have broken through when he first obtained the Divine Transformation Pill a few months ago.
No!
If he truly wished to ascend, the experience of a "Merchant" he garnered after fulfilling the order for the 12 Purple Cloud flying swords would have sufficed to max out his "Divine Path" and break through.
But he wanted to take advantage of the still reasonable "human resource costs" to farm as much experience as possible with the "Merchant" profession before they soared.
However, his reputation had been growing rapidly of late. His identity as a Master Artifact Refiner was gradually approaching that of a Grandmaster, and the increase in human resource costs was fast approaching the changes that would come with a realm breakthrough.
