A young man dressed in a pale blue-green daoist robe slowly climbed the steps before him.
Chen Yan was the youngest Spirit Communion Realm elder in the history of the Luoling Sect.
Chen Yan was currently serving as an elder of the Discipline Hall on the Luoling Sect's Main Peak.
For a cultivator in the Spirit Communion Realm, this position was somewhat low.
But the real power he held in his hands far exceeded what his current position suggested.
Back then, Chen Yan had advanced from the Body Tempering Realm to the Martial Spring Realm Mid-stage in a single year, sending shockwaves through the cultivators of the Luoling Sect.
Yet that shock paled beside the uproar he caused by advancing from the mid-stage of the Martial Spring Realm to the Spirit Communion Realm in just eleven years.
That was because the further one progressed in cultivation, the more difficult it became. This had long since become common knowledge to all.
Besides, the Immortal Dao had never been about how quickly a person could advance, but how far they could go in the end.
Many extraordinary figures like Chen Yan had emerged over the Luoling Sect's history of more than two thousand years.
There had once been a Luoling Sect disciple who advanced from an ordinary mortal to the Martial Spring Realm in just four years.
But even hundreds of years later, when he died, he was still only a Qi Sea Realm Early-stage cultivator.
Of course, there had also been legendary figures who had taken more than thirty years to advance from the Body Tempering Realm to the Martial Spring Realm, only to eventually become a Spirit Communion Realm Peak Master of the sect.
It was precisely because of his legend that the peak he had governed was renamed Ancient