"A genius who came along the Ancient Road from a lower realm actually possessed such strength. Truly astonishing."
"With this little fellow here, whatever those old ghosts from the Sacred Heart Sect and Tianlu Mountain were plotting will probably end up like drawing water with a bamboo basket."
Beside Sage Lord Fenghe, the current grand elder of the Longyang Sect spoke with considerable feeling.
After tens of thousands of years, he had thought the Listening Sea Pavilion would be reclaimed by this generation of disciples. Yet he had never expected the Lanhai Sect to enjoy such fortune in this generation, picking up a genius like this along the way.
At that thought, even the Longyang Sect's grand elder could not help giving Sage Lord Fenghe a few extra looks.
At their level, the more they came into contact with the upper realm, the more they understood that elusive, intangible Karma.
Between a cultivator of extraordinary talent plagued by misfortune and a cultivator of mediocre aptitude blessed with flourishing Karma, the one who made it to the end was, in the vast majority of cases, the latter.
But that did not mean Karma represented everything on the road of seeking the Dao.
Rather, it represented just how steadfast that power to defy heaven truly was.
Often, only those who combined an unyielding Dao Heart with considerable aptitude could travel farther along this great path.
People often said cultivation was an act of defying heaven. Precisely for that reason, even with outstanding aptitude and comprehension, one needed this heaven-bestowed Karma to accomplish a heaven-defying feat.
Borrowing the power of heaven and earth to defy heaven-this was the Dao Path in miniature!
"The upper realm's Immortal Gate has been tightly shut for over a hundred thousand years. Even on the rare occasions it