Rumor on the Nine Li Continent held that the Immortal Wave Sect's supreme cultivation scripture was called the "Twelve Dao-Seeking Sutras," and that the pinnacle of each grade required cultivating two meridians of immortal radiance. Once all twelve meridians were cleared and twelve rays of immortal radiance manifested, one could enter the sixth grade.
When the sect's countless disciples first joined, they could only study the Introductory Chapter of the Twelve Dao-Seeking Sutras. However, if a young acolyte could enter the second rank and manifest three rays of immortal radiance before turning twelve, they would be cultivated as someone of considerable talent and granted the right to study its Dao-Seeking Chapter.
If they could enter the second rank before twelve and manifest four rays of immortal radiance, the limit of that grade, the sect would regard them as a "Great Talent of the World." Someone from the Elder Pavilion would personally accept them as an inner disciple and carefully nurture them. Favored with the sect's resources, they would become a Heavenly Pride of the new generation, a future pillar of the sect.
Chu Jin was the undisputed foremost member of the Immortal Wave Sect's younger generation.
At eleven, he had entered the third grade and manifested five rays of immortal radiance. Born a wretched child of a rural wilderness village, a background everyone in the sect despised, he had utterly astonished Nine Li The Human World. He had also overwhelmed all his peers outside the Seeking Dao Palace and become Sect Master Wuchen's Closed-Door Disciple.
Now, he had entered the fourth grade, with all eight rays of immortal radiance manifested. In every previous grade, he had successfully manifested two rays, establishing numerous legends that countless Immortal Wave Sect disciples could never surpass in their corresponding grades, even over an entire