Xia Yu gave a light chuckle. "Such a realm is beyond reach. If I were at the Foundation Establishment stage, I wouldn't have made a special trip back here today. Having reached that level, one should have severed worldly ties long ago. I can only blame my own cultivation for being inadequate; after years of bitter practice, I am still only at the Eighth Layer of Qi Refinement, forever unable to cut ties with the mortal world."
"The Eighth Layer of Qi Refinement!"
Taoist Master Li was slightly startled. In the world of cultivation, this was already a remarkable expert, extremely rare at least in the Hanshui State. Take the Eight Trigrams Gate, for example: although his father was at the Foundation Establishment stage, he was already of a very advanced age and had only fathered him late in life out of fear that there would be no successor after his death. Apart from his father, there were only a few others at the Eighth Layer of Qi Refinement in the entire Eight Trigrams Gate, all of whom were elder-level figures.
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