Avril Jiyun!
She had been born in a mountain village of the Angel Race, poor and isolated. The mountain folk were simple and honest, never contending with the world, and rarely had any contact with outsiders.
Though life was somewhat impoverished, it was still fairly safe. At most, wild beasts and Demonic Beasts from the mountains caused trouble; there was no suffering from war.
Avril had been born here, and her starting point could be called exceedingly low. If nothing unexpected had happened, she would likely have spent her life as a village girl. Yet no one had expected Avril's luck to be so astonishing.
When she was born, Heavenly Dew had fallen from the sky, cleansing her meridians and marrow and granting her extraordinary talent and aptitude.
Over the following years, treasures repeatedly seemed to fall right before her, improving her physique and raising her talent time and again. Thus, when she began cultivating at only a few years old, she soared into the heavens in a single leap, far surpassing every Martial Artist in the village.
During her cultivation, she obtained no fewer than a hundred treasures every year. The lesser ones were merely Ninth-Rank, while the better ones had already surpassed the Seventh Rank, and most of them were quite useful to Avril.
Had the mountain village's cultivation techniques not been so poor, with Avril's talent and the treasures she had acquired, she would have long since broken into the Transcendence Realm instead of still lingering at the Ninth-Rank Martial Artist realm.
At this moment, in the mountain village, Avril was the strongest cultivator at the pinnacle of the Earth Barrier, while the village chief ranked beneath her and was merely in the Muscle Tempering Realm. There was a full seven minor realms between them.
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