"You're out of seclusion, kid?" Qi Daolin appeared without warning.
"How long has it been?"
"About a year. Feels like time flew by, doesn't it?"
Wu Xuantian nodded. "It does. Thank you for teaching me this past year, Dao Master."
"Hah. You're the successor of my Supreme Dao Field. Of course I'd teach you everything I know.
What's with that tone, though? Planning to betray the sect?" Wu Xuantian had no words for the old man's antics.
"You're overthinking it, Dao Master.
Anyway, I've been in seclusion for a year. I'm itching to move. It's time I went out and made my way in the world."
"Go on, then. Just don't disgrace the Supreme Dao Field, or I'll deal with you myself."
Wu Xuantian left. He had gained a great deal that year. Qi Daolin had an extensive collection and had shared it with him freely.
Wu Xuantian had used those treasures to rebuild his cultivation. His physical body and heavenly passages had become one, his ten heavenly passages merging into a single passage.
His Primordial Spirit's ten heavenly passages had likewise merged into one. With two overlapping heavenly passages, one of the body and one of the Primordial Spirit, his foundation had grown deeper still.
The Unique Heavenly Passage could briefly immobilize an opponent's attack.
Five Elements Prefecture.
Wu Xuantian had returned to the prefecture. When he first arrived in the Upper Realm, he had landed on Demon Island. Now he was back in Five Elements Prefecture once more.
On the way, Wu Xuantian learned that Mount Eternal was about to open a secret realm. It was an ancient site where a primordial Supreme had attempted Nirvana, and it held tremendous opportunities.
Mount Eternal had invited the First Generations of various provinces to test themselves against one another