Familiar Lake

Alex blinked. The aura around him submerged into his body like a receding tide.

Nora was surprised. She wasn't able to do what Alex had done. Just after a breakthrough, the Qi inside the body is usually in turmoil and to fully gain control of it takes many days of regular cultivation and practicing martial arts.

If they met any cultivators, then their promotion could not be kept as a secret because of the aura or a kind of a Qi breath that can be sensed by the cultivators.

Alex did it almost immediately. It ever felt like he had any kind of a breakthrough in his cultivation. 

"Congratulate Alex!" Nora didn't forget to wish. Her inner joy of promoting to the Peak Stage of Dantian Cultivation Realm has died down as she suddenly thought of Alex's age and his cultivation level.