Sai had arrived at this building as the correct choice. He was leaving it as a confirmed one. There was a difference between those two things, and it mattered.
The others had not been idle.
Ronan had come into the building at Spirit Root Level 3 Mid-Stage and was leaving it at Level 4 Low Stage—a full level crossed in thirty days through array-assisted cultivation that his natural consistency had converted into something his body could actually hold rather than advance through too quickly to stabilise.
His Heaven-Piercing Thrust had tightened into a form that was visibly more controlled than it had been, the reach of the spear technique extending from a more grounded base.
His Featherlight Ascension movement skill had moved from where it was into something cleaner — the transition between grounded movement and elevated footwork requiring less recovery time at the point of landing.
