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Primordial Central Heaven.

Fang Qing carefully savored the feeling of three Water Virtue Dao lineages merging and raising his cultivation to Late Golden Core.

Countless streams converged, becoming a hazy light of life-giving moisture.

Verdant green, deep black, and frosty white mingled, filling the entire Grotto-Heaven.

After a long while, he sighed again. "I could swallow any Water Virtue Golden Seat that came my way and advance to Golden Core Perfection, but that would be as far as I'd go. To attain Water Virtue [Year Guardian], I still have to follow the Dao Path!"

To advance to [Year Guardian], order and position were crucial. Get either wrong, and failure was the only outcome!

As Fang Qing understood it now, the [Year Guardian] shortcut was a shortcut precisely because one had to follow its route to the letter. Change routes, and it ceased to be a shortcut.

"The [Year Guardian] sequence is the method of sovereign, minister, assistant, and envoy—taking the four Golden Seats as one great medicine!"

"That means the Principal Position must belong to the sovereign!"

"But the Water Virtue Principal Position is still held by [Zhen Water]. I could swallow any Water Virtue Golden Seat to reach Golden Core Perfection, but to reach a Golden Core Perfection capable of advancing to Water Virtue [Year Guardian], I must obtain the [Zhen Water] Principal Position!"

"Three Water Virtue lineages and one Lunar Yin lineage would serve as a makeshift substitute. But like the Great Sun [Year Guardian]'s current Dao Path of sun, moon, water, and fire, it would demand considerable cultivation to maintain the balance, and failure would remain possible."

"Of course, three waters and one Lunar Yin still fall, barely, within Water Virtue. The cultivation required would be far lower than for sun, moon, water, and fire. But the