At the Dao Seeking Altar in the Zhou Kingdom Imperial Palace.
Xiao Mo was practicing the Grass Character Sword Art.
His sword moved with his heart.
As an insight stirred within Xiao Mo, he unleashed a stroke of sword qi, and a warm current flowed through every part of his body.
Putting away his sword, Xiao Mo let out a deep breath.
When he opened his eyes, delight welled up in his heart!
He had reached the eighth layer of the Qi Refining Realm!
Moreover, compared with the frustrating difficulty he had experienced when practicing before, Xiao Mo found that cultivating the Grass Character Sword Art went much more smoothly after tempering his body with Heavenly Dao Marrow Cleansing Liquid.
It was a wonderfully mysterious feeling.
When he practiced what had once been ordinary moves, he would always gain fresh insights. He grasped them quickly, too, and could even draw further inferences from them.
Clearly, his aptitude had improved considerably.
Xiao Mo did not know where his aptitude ranked in this real world of cultivation.
But within the Book of a Hundred Lives, his talent would at least qualify him as an inner disciple of a major sect—and an above-average one at that.
Of course, compared with his fourth incarnation, it was nowhere near enough.
Still, Xiao Mo accepted that quite calmly.
After all, in his fourth life, he had been playing on a "genius account," quite possibly as one of the greatest geniuses since ancient times.
That was something one was born with. Envy would not change it.
By comparison, bringing his own aptitude this far had already been extraordinarily difficult, and he was quite satisfied.
"Come to think of it, why haven't I seen Jiang Rou today?"
Xiao Mo looked around the Dao Seeking Altar, rather puzzled.
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