At Eastern Court Profound Residence, atop the Star Platform, Daoist Wan Ming silently watched in the direction of Fu Prefecture.
As the Profound Chief of Eastern Court, he paid attention whenever any cultivator under his jurisdiction broke through a boundary. Especially for someone with such immense potential as Ban Lan, he devoted even more attention.
Although Ban Lan had once been an infiltrator from Upper Firmament Heaven, to be honest, he had truly rendered no small amount of merit in the past.
To prove himself and gain a sufficiently high standing, he had worked extraordinarily hard. The achievements he had amassed over the years were truly astonishing.
Wan Ming had reviewed Eastern Court's talents. Leaving aside whether Ban Lan's cultivation ranked among the very best of his generation, merely in terms of practical accomplishments, Ban Lan could be called second to none.
Not to mention his previous merits in Yiluo Upper Continent, Fu Prefecture alone had been created from nothing, and he had participated in the endeavor from beginning to end.
Moreover, he lived austerely, was skilled at instructing the younger generation, and had never indulged in pleasure. He was only slightly better off than an ascetic cultivator. Among the younger generation of profound cultivators, he possessed broad influence, with no small number of supporters across every continent.
He had pretended for an entire lifetime, yet had turned himself into the very person he had pretended to be.
Wan Ming kept an eye on him because, for ordinary people, it was enough to judge deeds rather than hearts. But for cultivators, what mattered was their own Dao. It would be one thing if Ban Lan failed to attain achievement, but if, after attaining it, his Dao conflicted with Celestial Xia's Dao intent, Wan Ming would step forward and force him