Five years later.
...
On White Dragon Mountain, a Foundation Establishment phenomenon ascended; Jiang Shangyue formally established her foundation.
Although her true cultivation was at the late Golden Core stage and it was an extremely stable late Golden Core, with unique accomplishments in the cultivation of ice attribute techniques, Jiang Shangyue still, through some means, "simulated" this Foundation Establishment phenomenon.
Ning Daoran couldn't be bothered to expose her, so he played along with her act and hosted a Foundation Establishment banquet for Jiang Shangyue in the Mountain Master Cave Mansion.
Several months later.
"Reporting to the Mountain Master!"
Outside the cave mansion, Xu Jian respectfully said, "At the foot of the mountain, a Golden Core Middle Stage Practitioner who calls himself Zhou Yao has arrived requesting to meet the Mountain Master to discuss renting a peak."
"Oh?"
Ning Daoran floated out of the cave mansion and said, "Lead the way."
"Yes!"
