Foundation-Building Shuttle, Cultivating Divine Sense

Partings always came a little too quickly.

Once he had decided where to go, Chu Bai did not rush to leave. He prepared modest gifts and visited, one by one, the teachers who had looked after him over the past half year.

Vice Dean Lu He's earnest guidance, Supervisor Chen's old-fashioned but sound advice, Instructor Lei's hearty slap on his shoulder, and the hope in Zhou Changkong's eyes as he looked at him...

Chu Bai committed it all to memory.

Though he was about to pass beyond the Dao Academy's walls, nothing could sever the debt he owed for a year of teaching and guidance, or the bonds it had forged.

After taking care of everything, Chu Bai went to where Zhang Cheng was staying.

"You brat, have you really made up your mind?"

When he saw Chu Bai again and heard his firm answer, Zhang Cheng could not help rubbing his hands together. Even though he had expected it, delight showed plainly on his face.

"Anping County has struck gold this time!"

Zhang Cheng sighed inwardly. He had not been idle at the Dao Academy these past two days. The more he asked around, the more the details of Chu Bai's Immortal Official Examination made his heart pound.

He had fought a host of opponents alone, defeated a prodigy against the odds, and even withstood a full-powered strike from a Qi Refining Mid-Stage cultivator...

What kind of newly graduated recruit could fight like that? He was clearly a commander who could be sent out to hold his own right away!

Yet amid his excitement, Zhang Cheng saw the situation as clearly as a mirror.

A prodigy like this was a True Dragon destined to soar through the Nine Heavens. Little Anping County would be no more than his