Another spring had arrived.
Exactly five years had passed since Lin Mo entered the Azure Cloud Sect.
"I won't be attending the selection ceremony for the new Inner Sect elders."
In the Small Courtyard on Sect Master Peak's Back Mountain, Lin Mo looked at an excited Liu Xianzong and smiled. "If all goes well, by the time the ceremony ends, I'll officially be an Inner Sect elder too, just like Elder Yuan."
"If it doesn't... I'll find another way!"
With a Perfect Foundation Establishment Pill in hand, Lin Mo was absolutely confident he could easily cross the chasm between qi refining and foundation establishment.
There were precedents for cultivators with five-spirit roots achieving foundation establishment. But Lin Mo did not have the five-spirit root everyone thought he did; he had an unprecedented six-element spiritual root. That was his only concern, and why he dared not make any sweeping promises.
"You... you're going to attempt foundation establishment?!"
Liu Xianzong's face lit up with delight and surprise. "That's you all over! You're reaching foundation establishment far faster than someone with a four-element spiritual root like me. I only just reached the seventh layer of qi refining... I guarantee you'll succeed. You absolutely will!"
Lin Mo smiled without saying anything more.
With Liu Xianzong's spiritual root, he originally would not have qualified to enter the Inner Sect, let alone set foot in Lin Mo's Small Courtyard.
But ever since absorbing the resentful energy and killing intent in Blood Fiend Cave, his physique had grown increasingly powerful, and he had begun to tread the path of body cultivation. Blood-red fissures had even appeared across his skin, like the dried, hardened crust of lava, making others shrink back in fear.
After a thorough examination by the Inner Sect elders, they discovered that his meridians had