The exalted positions of Golden Core were supreme and most noble, and had always been divided into fruit, surplus, and intercalary positions.
Fruit and Surplus needed no explanation: they were the trunk and branches of a given Dao Path. Intercalary positions, however, usually remained hidden, lying where two paths intertwined and resonated.
Yet discovering which other path had an intercalary connection with one's own was as difficult as ascending to heaven for cultivators of lower realms. They could only rely on Great True Persons to calculate from their attainments, deduce from ancient records, and gamble with their lives.
Fortunately, the path of wood virtue had commanded wind and thunder since ancient times. Its cultivators were often close to lightning, giving them somewhat more room to maneuver when seeking gold and ascending to a position.
As a Great True Person, Qing Tang had not only preserved herself within the [thunder-cracking shift position], but had also crossed into thunder through an intercalary connection with four thunder wood arts and one execution thunder art. She truly deserved to be called a celestial master of the Dao Scripture.
It seems Nan Lüzi's crossing into intercalary thunder with a xun wood cultivation back then was not without foundation. Perhaps this was where he found his basis...
Jiang Yang pondered continually, drawing experience and insight from it.
The positions between heaven and earth were finite, while cultivators' desire to climb higher was boundless. They had to contend for the limited exalted positions of Golden Core, and in the end, only a scant few could fulfill their wishes.
Perhaps this was why Dao Lineages flourished without decline. Each held the most crucial points in its grasp. No matter how the world changed or rulers rose and fell, despite their separate fortunes, whenever origins, bloodlines, and Dao Lineage