Taking Jiang Yi's measure, the Immortal Dao of Eastern Victory Continent (Happy Lunar New Year's Eve~)

A mind that housed ten thousand volumes of true scriptures, command of half the heavens in civil and martial arts?

Jiang Yi raised his brows slightly, thinking to himself that he had never expected the usually reserved, unassuming Qin Sect Master to have such a reputation.

He immediately composed himself and said respectfully:

"I would never dare accept such praise. How could I compare with the Sect Master? If anyone else heard, I would only make myself a laughingstock before the learned."

Gu Changling cupped his hands:

"As the saying goes, one sees the great through the small, and understands the manifest through the minute. With your extraordinary root of wisdom, Dao Child, ascending to Foundation Establishment and attaining the metal position is only a matter of time." Jiang Yi smiled faintly, not taking it seriously.

Cultivation in the Jambudvipa Vast Land was like the growth of a mortal. Qi Refining was learning to babble and taking one's first tottering steps; everything began there.

If anything went wrong in this realm, one's subsequent Dao path would be ruined, and one would be destined never to amount to much.

Thus, both the grade of one's True Xi and the level of one's Dao foundation required meticulous refinement in pursuit of perfection.

But what truly determined the fundamentals of cultivation was still Foundation Establishment.

Qin Baiyu, Sect Master of the Xiantian Sect, was among the foremost Foundation Establishment prodigies in the Jambudvipa Vast Land.

His incarnations across five lifetimes had respectively been one of the Sun, Moon, and Star Three Powers of the [Side Gate], the final disciple of the [Immortal Dao]'s Five Elders Abbey, and the [Ancient Hell Palace]'s Holy Son from an intervening generation.

They also included the patriarch who had revitalized a Dao lineage beyond the heavens, and an