At Rong Estate, among the fields of improved crops.
With that, Jiang Tu had taken stock of everything he had gained from breaking through to the Sixth Grade and made it his own.
Hongdou, Qingling, and the Little Agricultural Blessing Official—the three Straw Figures stayed close together, each with their own duties, large and small. Everything was in good order.
Feeling expansive, he stood with his hands behind his back and could not resist taking stock of it all.
The Sixth Grade truly lived up to its reputation as the great leap from the lower realms to the middle realms. Consume Incense Offerings alone held wonders without end, to say nothing of the six arts that had transformed together, or the unknown new arts that would come as his cultivation continued to rise. The shape of things to come was already clear.
If the Sixth Grade was this remarkable, what would the Fifth Grade, the Fourth Grade, and the heights beyond look like?
He looked forward to it more than ever.
But on second thought, reaching the Sixth Grade had taken him more than seventy years within the evolution and over fifty years in the present world. How long would the Fifth Grade take? Perhaps a hundred years would pass in the blink of an eye. There was no rushing it.
The road of cultivation stretched on and on; haste made waste. He had long understood that truth, and he had patience enough.
Besides, he had another path forward.
The Spectator profession—the second Peerless Arts sequence!
This new sequence deserved careful study. He needed to unlock it as soon as possible.
His fourth evolution had begun in the forty-ninth year of the Jingtai Era. It was now the fourth year of the Shenglong Era, twenty-three years later, and he had