"So that was how it was... so that was how it was..."
The Pill Workshop's newly advanced Mystic Insight cultivator looked utterly crestfallen as he murmured to himself.
He had spent years cultivating deep in the mountains, deaf to everything beyond his window, his mind fixed solely on refining Dao Fate Pills.
Later, he mastered the art of pill refinement, crossed his tribulation, and attained the rank of Venerable. At the proudest moment of his Dao Path, he felt all the more certain that his destiny was extraordinary and the Great Dao lay within his grasp.
Before seeing the Yang Clan's extraordinary pill today, he had always said he understood his senior brother's warnings that the heavens were vast, the road was long, and the tides of the age were impossible to predict. In truth, he had never taken them much to heart.
After all, he had already reached the Venerable realm and climbed to a summit countless cultivators of Azure Waves could only gaze up at. Above him stood only a handful of Great Venerables and peak cultivators.
With cultivation like his, coupled with alchemical skill honed to a supernatural degree, he was confident that however the tides rose and fell, he could always stand at their crest.
But now, faced with a pill that defied all reason and shattered every past theory of the Alchemy Dao, that confidence crumbled to dust in an instant.
So even a Mystic Insight expert like him could not escape being swept along when the great tides truly surged.
"Senior Brother... I understand now. The joy of attaining the Dao went to my head. I thought reaching the Mystic Insight Realm meant I would be free of all constraints. But now I see that beneath these rolling tides, I'm only a somewhat larger