A year ago, when Wang Qi learned that he would be facing descendants of the legendary lineage of modern immortal dao, he had imagined more than once what form his meeting with those fabled Bo family members would take, and what wondrous techniques they would use against each other in battle.
After all, the Bo lineage was special.
There was a saying on Earth: "The grace of a gentleman lasts five generations before it is cut off." Divine Land had immortality techniques; accomplished ancestors could shelter their descendants for centuries or millennia. Yet no matter how their forebears protected them, they could only secure a little more resources for the younger generation at the outset, making their early path of cultivation somewhat smoother. There were plenty of lineages whose ancestors were Free and Unfettered Cultivators, yet not a single descendant had crossed the heavenly barrier of the Primordial Spirit.
But the Bo lineage was different. Five generations had produced eleven Free and Unfettered Cultivators and one hundred twenty Grandmasters; every generation was worthy of song, every generation graced with brilliance.
Legend said that the Bo lineage was naturally fond of calculation, but mathematics did not fit with the ancient methods. Thus, the Bo family's earliest rule stated that the direct line of the family head, or anyone entrusted with ruling a region, was forbidden from studying mathematics. The Bo family's first Free and Unfettered Cultivator, Bo Yage of the Great Number Extreme Universe, had grown sick of this rule and resolutely left home, joining the Myriad Dharma Sect just as it had wholly converted to the modern methods.
That year, Lord of Yuanli had only just entered the Dao and had not yet written The Logic of the Great Dao. No one in the world thought highly of modern immortal