Emerald Screen Mountain was shrouded in spiritual mist, its Dao resonance lingering without end.
As the Mountain-Chasing Dao continued to grow stronger, nourished by it, this sacred mountain—like a long nail pinning down the entirety of Lesser Dragon Ridge—became ever more extraordinary. Unknowingly, it had already surpassed its former peak.
"How exactly am I supposed to achieve the Celestial Phenomena realm?"
At the summit of the sacred mountain, breathing in the spiritual essence of heaven and earth as it observed the shifting signs of the sky, Rat Prodigy sank into distress.
Thanks to that trace of Golden Spirit bloodline and the inheritance left by the previous Rat King, its path through the Purple Mansion realm had gone rather smoothly. Moreover, Jiang Chen had enlightened it and helped it awaken, allowing it to completely surpass every ancestor of the Gold-Biting Rat clan in such a short time and reach the peak of the Purple Mansion realm.
Yet even so, when faced with the Celestial Phenomena threshold, it was still utterly at a loss.
It had previously sought guidance from Taoyao, True Lord Xuanji, and Cold Moon Fairy, but the answers it received had still failed to truly dispel its doubts.
"My lord said that if I wanted to break through to Celestial Phenomena, I still needed an opportunity. But where is my opportunity? Will it appear? When will it appear?"
Its thoughts churned. The more Rat Prodigy thought, the more muddled its mind became.
Once upon a time, it had believed itself to be a prodigy of its generation. But before the Celestial Phenomena threshold, it finally understood clearly that its so-called talent was still far too shallow.
"I was still too arrogant. Not everyone is like my lord and Taoyao. They are the true anomalies."
Thinking of Jiang Chen and