By the cliffside.
Jiang Ding stood with a hand on his sword, his eyes half-closed. Inner force surged through the major and minor branches of the Twelve Meridians as he faced the sea of clouds and continued opening up and nourishing more tiny subsidiary meridians.
There were 1,307 major and minor branches within the Twelve Meridians. These were the meridians he had already nourished and tempered, capable of carrying inner force.
Having passed through the Minor Celestial Circuit and Lesser Celestial Circuit, with his cultivation realm and martial art attainment continuously doubling his gains, coupled with an unbroken supply of Hundred Essence Qi Transforming Pills, he could now temper and nourish eighty tiny subsidiary meridians each day.
To reach the Greater Celestial Circuit realm would take 234 days—seven and a half months, nearly eight months!
If his ambitions stretched further, if he sought to glimpse the next realm, the Grand Completion of the Celestial Circuit, with its 108,000 meridians, it would require 1,333 days—nearly four years!
By then, the college entrance examinations would have ended who knew how long ago.
It was not that he was weak. Advancing to Innate at twenty would still make him a Young Eagle Innate.
The truth was that among the elite young talents gathered by the college entrance examinations—the finest of the Immortal Sects, a top-tier immortal cultivation power spanning countless small worlds—there were talents of terrifying aptitude and formidable backgrounds everywhere.
His current achievements might let him catch the tail end of a university's Cultivation Department, but if he wanted to strive upstream, he was still far from qualified.
A red sun showed its pointed tip, crimson clouds filling the sky. Daylight had fully broken.
Long San led a group of shop hands, along with the dozens of boys and girls who had