(First update)
"But I really am at the peak of the third layer of the Nascent Soul Realm!" Li Xiaoya hurriedly replied.
"...!" Heavenly Venerable Daoling's expression returned somewhat to normal. He realized he had overreacted, though that was understandable. With his own aptitude, he had consumed vast quantities of elixirs back then and enjoyed treatment hardly inferior to Li Xiaoya's, yet advancing from the nascent soul first layer to the third had still taken him nearly a hundred years. Li Xiaoya had reached the third layer through a single infusion from the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma. How could he not be stunned? Still, considering the peculiar nature of both the ganoderma and Li Xiaoya, he recovered his composure. A flash of inspiration struck him, and he sighed. "The fact that you encountered such an opportunity proves that you truly are the person our Heavenly Dao Sect has been searching for!"
"Master!" This matter had always weighed on Li Xiaoya's mind. He was no longer a novice cultivator, and the preferential treatment he received in the Heavenly Dao Sect was simply excessive-even better than what Liu Xian'er received with her heavenly immortal root aptitude. Although he had repeatedly speculated about it, he still did not know what the Heavenly Dao Sect wanted him to do. Now that Heavenly Venerable Daoling had brought it up himself, something stirred in his heart, and he asked, "There's something your disciple doesn't understand. Why exactly am I so important to the Heavenly Dao Sect? Is there something the sect needs me to do?"
"This matter..." Heavenly Venerable Daoling paused. He was hesitating when he caught sight of Li Xiaoya's resolute gaze. Something suddenly stirred in his heart, and he hurriedly said, "Actually, I'm not entirely clear about it myself. Nearly ten thousand years ago, when