The jade hare raced and the golden crow flew; the sun and moon flowed like water.
Jiang Yi had not moved an inch, sitting upright in the main hall of the Eternal Bright Heavenly Pool, wholly devoted to quiet, austere cultivation.
He ate ginseng and spirit mushrooms when hungry and drank jade nectar when thirsty, looking every bit a true immortal.
With five kinds of great medicine continually nourishing his body, his cultivation advanced a thousand miles a day, its growth almost impossible to restrain.
"For ordinary cultivators, breakthroughs mean gathering drops into rivers and piling earth into mountains. Every shred of progress is hard-won. I'm precisely the opposite. With the slightest effort, my cultivation climbs higher and higher."
Jiang Yi opened his eyes. The halo hanging behind his head abruptly rippled like a crumpled surface of water.
The Profound Light Law Power that combined Grade C and Grade D shook thunderously, seemingly about to erupt, shake mountains, and burn rivers and boil seas.
The next instant, Jiang Yi activated his Dao Embryo. Throughout his body, his hundred bones sealed shut like golden gates, firmly locking all one hundred and eight thousand pores.
His deep cultivation, perfected to twelve-tenths completion, resembled a giant flood dragon or furious python suppressed beneath dragon-binding pillars, sinking into silence with considerable reluctance.
Jiang Yi raised his eyelids, his gaze flashing. A streak of brilliant gold-white light lit the hall, like a sword's edge cleaving a murky world.
"What pure cultivation the Dao Child possesses."
Standing outside the hall, He Shouzheng's expression shifted slightly at the sight, and he was secretly startled:
"He's actually forcing himself to remain at the tenth level of Qi Refining... Just how deep must his reserves be to do that!"
As the administrator of the Lower Courtyard's Cloud-Receiving Hall, He