The so-called cultivating in adversity was to cultivate reversely!

It meant that retrogressing for the sake of advancing.

For example, at the time, although his realm was Qi Varying Realm, his state of mind was Space Splitting Realm. Not only that, what he had gained when his realm changed from Space Splitting Realm to Qi Varying Realm was always in his mind.

Realm!

Simply put, realm was a framework, and what he had to do at the time was to ...