"This realm is beyond reach," Xia Yu chuckled softly. "If I were in the Foundation Establishment stage, I wouldn't have made a special trip back here. Once one reaches that level, one should have long since cut ties with the mortal world. It is only because my cultivation is insufficient—after years of bitter practice, I am still a mere Eighth Layer of Qi Refining—that I remain unable to sever my connections to the mundane world."
"Eighth Layer of Qi Refining!"
Taoist Master Li was slightly startled. In the world of cultivation, this is an impressive level of mastery, and at least within the Huoyan Country, such individuals are extremely rare. Take the Bagua Sect, for instance; although his father is at the Foundation Establishment stage, his age is already quite advanced. It was precisely because he feared there would be no one to succeed him after his passing that he sired a son so late in life. Apart from his father, there were only a handful of others at the Eighth Layer of Qi Refining in the Bagua Sect, all of whom were at the elder level.
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