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This news perked Li Qi right up.

This was truly interesting.

Someone from the True Dao Sect was about to ascend.

In other words, someone had advanced to the seventh rank within five hundred years.

How should he put it...

It could not be called fast, but for a Dao Lineage that had begun from scratch, this was an exceptionally, exceptionally outstanding achievement. They had references to follow, yes, but in many places, they still had to feel their own way across the river by touching the stones.

Five hundred-odd years—for cultivators around the ninth rank, that was only about five generations. In five generations, they had worked out a method of Longevity?

This truly deserved encouragement.

After learning this news, Li Qi found himself far more motivated to travel. He was rather curious how the True Dao Sect had managed it.

Along the way, he arrived at the city beneath the True Dao Sect's mountain gate.

This city had been built entirely in reliance on the True Dao Sect.

Li Qi only needed to sweep his gaze from the sky downward to perceive the workings of the entire city. It was a city that existed wholly to supply the True Dao Sect.

The city had been built around the True Dao Sect's mountain gate. Vast amounts of goods and labor were stockpiled here, most of them intended to be sent up the mountain.

Five hundred years had already been enough for the True Dao Sect to grow into a colossal entity. To mortals, five hundred years was enough to overturn heaven and earth, leaping all the way from a feudal age into a modern industrial society.

Yet the True Dao Sect had not developed into an industrial society. After Li Qi paid the entry head tax and looked around,