Chapter 2808

Increasing one's physical strength was comparatively easier. As long as he could endure pain and allow his body to be gravely injured, his physical strength would only grow.

Pain? Injuries?

James had withstood immeasurable pain and suffering all this while. His physical body burned in the flames. Ordinary cultivators would not have been able to endure the excruciating heat. However, James had gotten used to this. Even though his skin was already bright red, he did not even wince once.

Afterward, he catalyzed the Novenary Golden Body Siddhi to absorb the energy of the flames to increase his physical strength.

Regardless, his physical strength increased at a snail's pace.

James entered a closed-door meditation for another fifty years. Only then did his physical strength increase to the Sage Rank's Eighth Stage.

A year and a half had passed in the outside world. Though he had no idea whether the Thirty-three Stages Celestial Palace had opened, he knew he had to leave his closed-door