Competition, Southern Domain Grand Tournament!

[These months of travels allow you to thoroughly understand the entire Daqing, your footprints covering all nine great commanderies.]

[Your life experience increases.]

[In the sixth year, October, you stay in Muye Mountain to cultivate.]

[You learn that after you brought back a large number of Profound-grade alchemists, the lineage's Pill Hall once again ushers in rapid development, the lineage's enterprises are completely stabilized, and even Myriad Treasure Tower needs to purchase pills from you.]

[Your Mu Family's cooperative allies also grow increasingly numerous; today Taiyi Sword Sect and Luohua Sect have likewise reached cooperation with your Mu Family, and even the Daqing imperial court maintains interactions.]

[The entire Mu Family has truly become Daqing's preeminent lineage, sufficient to stand on equal footing with the three major powers, and among the populace you are even called one of Daqing's four top-tier powers.]

[In the sixth year, December, you joyfully reunite with your family.]

[In the seventh year, January, according to memories, spatial rifts will appear this month at the border between the Eastern Domain and the Star Sea.]

[Yet, you know that with merely your current strength, you cannot resolve this at all, so you choose wisely to preserve yourself and take no part in this matter.]

[However, you still wish to go to Green Lotus Sword Sect to see Li Ruilin.]

[In the seventh year, February, you arrive at Green Lotus Sword Sect, relying on the Dragon Abyss Token bestowed by Xiao Wenming to see Li Ruilin as desired.]

[Molten gold twilight spills over the martial practice arena shaded by green bamboos.]

[A youth is practicing the sword. The youth is around eighteen or nineteen years of age, wearing a moon-white fitted tunic, his dark hair bound with only a plain hair ribbon, a few stray locks stirred by