The breakthrough happened on a Tuesday.
Zhao Lingxi had been following Bai Xuelan's cultivation method for two weeks. Every morning, she sat in the private courtyard and distributed golden energy through her entire body. Every evening, Bai Xuelan measured her progress with her instruments and scribbled observations in her journal.
The results were extraordinary.
Peak fourth level. Then fifth level. Then, by the end of the second week, early sixth level. A rate of advancement that would have taken an ordinary cultivator half a year, compressed into fourteen days.
"Her body is adapting to the distribution method faster than my models predicted," Bai Xuelan told Lan Yue during one of their measuring sessions. "The golden energy isn't just filling her body. It's restructuring it. Strengthening her bones, her muscles, her tendons. At this rate, she'll reach Foundation Establishment within a month."
"Is that dangerous?" Lan Yue asked.
