That was not the only reason. His current cultivation had already reached the late Core Formation stage; while it could not be said that the Nascent Soul stage was terribly far off, it was by no means within easy reach either.
Putting aside the sheer difficulty of forming a Nascent Soul, there still lay an impassable chasm between him and that moment. No matter how hard he tried, he always fell significantly short.
Xuan Xiao did not know if others found forming a Nascent Soul just as difficult, but to him, it was a hundred times harder than he had ever imagined.
Chapter 1499