Close to an hour later, Han Li returned to the center of the secret chamber, then set down a cushion before taking a seat with his legs crossed.

After that, he pulled the storage pouch that had been given to him by Daoist Hu Yan out of a pocket of his robes.

Inside the storage pouch was a white jade slip with golden patterns engraved onto it, and Han Li injected his spiritual sense into the jade slip to inspect its contents.

The jade slip contained the fourth level of the Mantra Axis Scripture.

In contrast with the second and third levels of the cultivation art, which had led Han Li down a deep rabbit hole searching for that mysterious valley, the fourth level of the cultivation art had been obtained so easily that it almost felt a little surreal to Han Li.

However, it then occurred to him that the broken monument in White Finch Valley was most likely something that Dao Lord Baili had placed there as a red herring to convince people that the Blaze Dragon Dao only had the first three levels of the cultivation art.

As for the jade slip in his hand, just like the first level of the cultivation art that he had received, it was...