“Have a seat, Embittered Bamboo.” Jiang Chen smiled faintly. “It seems that you’ve made good progress in understanding the Way to Grand Ascension. You’re half a step from reaching advanced empyrean realm, aren’t you? Do you know why you’re having trouble making the breakthrough to seventh level?”

Forefather Embittered Bamboo sighed dejectedly. “I don’t know. Perhaps that’s just written in my destiny.”

“Wrong!” Jiang Chen shook his head with a smile. “There’s a tradition of changing one’s fate in the martial dao world. While some are more fortunate than others, all cultivators who are truly on track to greatness possess the courage...