Jiang Yun and the other three joined the Three Pure Ones' circle. After exchanging pleasantries with everyone across from them, they realized that Jiang Yun had already broken through to the Great Luo Realm. They congratulated Jieyin and Zhunti again, and Jiang Yun had successfully gone from being a junior friend to a fellow Daoist who could discuss the Dao with them. He could finally step out from behind Jieyin and stand in the spotlight.
That day, as the gates of Purple Firmament Palace opened, the many mighty cultivators who had come to listen to the Dao streamed into the main hall and took their seats according to the arrangement from the previous lecture. Jiang Yun took a look around and noticed many unfamiliar faces this time. Presumably, some of those who had attended the last lecture had already perished.
Life was truly unpredictable. In the Primordial Desolation, surviving in peace was genuinely difficult. Even after reaching their current realms, they still had to be exceedingly careful.
As the hall doors closed, Old Ancestor Hongjun appeared silently atop the elevated platform. Daoist rhymes flowed around him, and compared to last time, his aura seemed even deeper.
"The lecture begins. This is the second lecture, and today I shall expound on the Path of the Quasi-Saint."
Old Ancestor Hongjun announced the subject without delay and immediately began explaining the cultivation that followed the Great Luo Realm.
"Heaven is exalted and earth is humble; thus, Qian and Kun are established. The humble and exalted are arranged; thus, honor and lowliness have their places. Movement and stillness have their constants; thus, hardness and softness are distinguished. Things gather according to their kind, and people divide according to their groups; thus, good fortune and misfortune arise. In Heaven, forms are completed; on Earth,