Su Jinjing kept Yang Qing for a few hours, with Ma Yuan joining them before she finally left. Seeing her silhouette vanish around the corner, Yang Qing couldn't help but sigh from the emotions of parting.
With how deep and firm Su Jinjing's accumulations were, from his conservative estimates, he was willing to bet she would take no more than three months, while her spear would likely take a much shorter period than her, maybe a month or two at most, with a great majority of the time being spent with it digesting the harvests of surviving its tribulation.
This was where the difference between artifacts and cultivators lay when breaking through to the palace realm. The palace realm could be considered a true watershed and starting point for both cultivators and artifacts. It could be said that both achieve a true birth at the palace realm, but the differences between the sides come up in how they break through and everything in between which includes the conclusion of it.
