At Last, First-Rank Hunyuan!

The National Preceptor's Residence.

In the courtyard, Su Qingying stood quietly in a plain white dress. Seeing that Jiang Ning had entered a state of cultivation, she withdrew.

The great formation overhead slowly shed most of its power, leaving only a basic veil of concealment.

Jiang Ning noticed Su Qingying arrive and leave, but paid it no mind.

He devoted himself entirely to cultivating, steadily increasing his proficiency in the Spiritual Altar Illumination of the True Self Method.

His cultivation had grown more efficient rather than less. Though the total proficiency required had increased, with diligent practice day and night, he would not need much time.

He had long since experienced the method's wonders and mysteries firsthand.

In his view, it ranked alongside the Indestructible Vajra Body and the Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique, below the Grand Void Yin-Yang Sword.

Yet its profound and extraordinary effects made him value it immensely.

In one sense, he considered the Spiritual Altar Illumination of the True Self Method superior to the Indestructible Vajra Body and the Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique.

Judging by his own experience, they clearly were not on the same level.

How could he stop when only a few more days of practice would give him enough foundation to break through with such a wondrous method?

At the city gate.

Through the swirling snow, a carriage slowly approached.

At the same time.

Its curtain was swept aside, revealing a young woman's delicate face through the gap.

"So this is Upper Capital? It really is magnificent!!!"

She was Lü Yi, who had set out from Dongling City some time ago.

As she spoke, another young woman's delicate face appeared beside her at the edge of the curtain.

"The walls rise beyond sight, like a black dragon stretched across the land. Who knows how