After finishing his demonstration, Li Hao withdrew the Di Luo Shield Technique, and his primordial spirit returned to his body.
Across the go board on the wooden stump, Old Wang stared at Li Hao in a daze. In the three years since Li Hao had arrived, he had never cultivated, yet his very first attempt had reached perfected true meaning?
Had he secretly deduced and comprehended it within his mental world? But Li Hao had been playing go with him all along, studying Immortal Herb Cultivation in his spare time. Where would he have found the attention to comprehend the Yama Immortal Technique?
"..."
Old Wang fell silent. Li Hao's performance had exceeded his expectations.
Meanwhile, someone seated on a distant meditation cushion sensed the powerful primordial spirit fluctuations outside the cottage and opened his eyes. When he saw the Yanluo Outer Image Li Hao had revealed, he froze.
He had not chosen the primordial spirit cultivation path, so he had not practiced the Yanluo Battle Method. Others had chosen it before, but none had succeeded.
Yet now, that newly arrived youth seemed to have mastered it!
Could Old Wang really have been giving him special instruction?
"Does this count as passing?"
Outside the cottage, Li Hao asked Old Wang.
Old Wang came back to his senses, a strange expression crossing his face. "How did you comprehend it? You couldn't possibly have inherited this technique elsewhere. Don't tell me you were dividing your attention every day while playing go with this old man, secretly comprehending the Yama Immortal Technique on the side?"
Li Hao grinned. "Why else would I keep losing to you, Senior?"
"You brat."
Old Wang rolled his eyes at him in exasperation. He did not believe Li Hao's nonsense for a moment. The boy's stubborn, self-forgetting focus