they could have cultivated in that time, looks like all they did was a staredown and crying in order

A whole wasted ep

gotta have some transition ep's and info fillers. 5 min. isn't very long and we learned a few things like no monsters around foreshadowing something strange going on and his respect level earned among his peers has grown greatly. We also learned that spiritual power can be supplemented by those gems which may play a major roll in the future in a scenario similar to destroyed cultivation restoration or the ability to fight for a while after complete SP exhaustion using those gems like how the Mc has currently run out of SP which is probably the reason for his cracked skin appearance if I remember correctly.

The cracked skin appearance is because he didn't want to stay behind a barrier but instead to experience the powerful energies of the God Burial Abyss. That damage can actually temper his body to become stronger. Early on, Tan Yun relied on his unparalleled body cultivation technique to win fights while punching WAY above his weight class. They don't spend much effort explaining too much about this in the donghua but his Hongmen Hegemon Body Cultivation technique is one of his 4 biggest trump cards.

Lol 50 million miles. They just throwing out big numbers and think its impressive?

This series is definitely garbage now. Lol what even are these episodes? Pure trash.

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