Having avenged his Dao Companion, Xu Jiuling had reaped a rich haul of spirit stones and resources in the battle on Mysterious Mountain Island.
Taking advantage of his authority as Deputy Hall Master of the General Affairs Hall, he had carefully selected and exchanged for a batch of medicinal pills of excellent quality.
Perhaps fortune had favored him from beyond the veil, for after a period of secluded cultivation, Xu Jiuling had actually broken through smoothly to late-stage Foundation Establishment.
One had to know that late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators enjoyed a long lifespan of fully two hundred and forty years.
And he was not yet a hundred, still in the prime of his life.
With the innate talent of his high-grade spiritual root, reaching such a realm at so young an age undoubtedly gave him a fairly substantial chance of success on his future path to Core Formation.
Nor was that all. His good fortune seemed far from exhausted.
The former Hall Master of the General Affairs Hall had already accumulated enough cultivation to reach the peak of Foundation Establishment.
Following the Condensed Jade Sect's usual practice, he had voluntarily resigned as Hall Master to take up an elder's position instead.
This was solely so he could prepare for the path to the Golden Core without distractions.
And Xu Jiuling, having rendered outstanding service in exterminating the Yue Household rebels, had smoothly ascended to the seat of Hall Master of the General Affairs Hall.
Now on Earth Jade Island, he was brimming with confidence, his fortunes blazing like the midday sun.
He had even had the good fortune to become the Third Grand Supreme's personal disciple, securing the remaining portions of the Mysterious Darkness Divine Palm as well.
"Senior Brother Xue? What did you say? A true disciple? A Grand