Chapter Forty-Three: Belonging to One's Own Cultivation Knowledge

  It's said that when you mention Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrives! Along with a sudden lazy voice, Leng You's pretty face fell, and she felt like crying but had no tears. At the same time, a figure slowly appeared beside the three of them.

  Wearing a black Zhongshan suit, with a pair of glasses on his face, the newcomer looked refined and elegant. He appeared to be around thirty years old, and his cultivation was clearly above the foundation stage. If not for accidentally noticing that Lü Hongtian's eyes suddenly turned towards Liang Ke's direction when he took out the Yiqi Dan, and slightly raised an eyebrow, she would have sensed it later with her spiritual power in that direction. Perhaps Zuo Xiaoyao wouldn't even notice that there was a 'hidden person' standing there at some unknown time.

  Lian Ke glanced at him with a "I admit my mistake" expression, lowered his head and obediently shouted "Master!" The newcomer cupped one hand in the other and bowed, saying "Thank you, fellow Taoist, for bestowing great kindness on my junior apprentice. Next time we meet will be under the Lingnan Mountains, where I have an old friend named Luo Xian."

  Some people couldn't tell the etiquette of this cultivation world, and although they were a bit at a loss, Zuo Xiaoyao, who had learned from her experiences over the past two days, calmly replied with a bow, "Qin Daoist is too kind, I am Xiao Yao, just a lone cultivator. It was only because I happened to meet Brother Luo that we came together to this place! To be honest, I should be calling you senior, but you insist on treating me as an equal!"

  Although Xue Ya spoke frankly about the gap in their cultivation, she acknowledged her own position and called him a fellow Taoist with neither arrogance nor humility. She believed that she might break through her cultivation soon, and because of her previous friendship with Luo Hongtian, her tone was warm and modest, which unexpectedly made Qin's heart feel a little better. "Fellow Taoist Xiao's breakthrough is imminent, we will become fellow Taoists of the same level sooner or later, there is no need to distinguish so clearly. It's just that my junior sister was impolite and dared to address Fellow Taoist as 'sister' without regard for the difference in cultivation levels!"

  Xiao Xue looked at Qin Liangke, who was secretly pouting in discontent, and nodded in response. "Then thank you for your kindness, Qin! Ke'er is lively and straightforward by nature. It was I who suggested that she call me sister, after all, as women, we don't want to be reminded of our fading youth!"

  As soon as her words fell, several people couldn't help but burst out laughing. Hong Tian followed up and said, "It seems that Lian Ke is quite fond of Xiao Yao's name. In that case, let them decide for themselves. After all, we cultivators don't pay attention to these formal titles!"

  She had already heard that Zuo Xiaoyao was not only teasing herself, but also making excuses for Qin Liangyu, and with Luo Hongtian's help, plus Qin Xiao was not a particularly stubborn person, she also slightly relaxed her expression and no longer insisted.

  Seeing that her own master no longer cared about what she had said earlier, Qin Lian was like a liberated person and immediately enthusiastically hugged Zuo Xiao's arm, saying "Xiao sister is really a very good person! Not at all like some female cultivators who have been practicing for many years, always putting on an air of being superior to others, and always wanting to be my master's wife. Hmph, no way!"

  Being brought up by one's own junior apprentice in public about one's lifelong major event, the taste is obviously not very good. Also feeling Luo Hongtian's gaze with a hint of mockery, Qin Xiao's face turned serious as he adjusted his glasses and said "I think you're getting more and more presumptuous. Since you have the dan medicine given by your senior sister, for the next period of time, you won't lack what you need to cultivate. It's better if you return to the mortal world early and learn how to speak and act as a grown-up!"

  "No! No! The big deal here will be lively, I don't want to go back like this, I won't speak anymore, Master, good Master, please forgive your disciple this time!"

  Qin Liangke immediately let go of Zuo Xiaoyao and hugged Qin Xiao instead, looking at him with a knowing and repentant expression. Seeing the interaction between the master and apprentice, Zuo Xiaoyao couldn't help but exchange a smile with Luo Hongtian, who was already used to this scene.

  In the following days, due to the presence of Qin Xiao's disciples, Zuo Xiaoyao did not want them to know that she was previously a 'Cultivation Rookie', so she maintained a state of listening more and speaking less. In her spare time, she diligently studied the large number of classics she had acquired, in order to quickly enrich her own Cultivation knowledge. Although it was inconvenient to take advantage of the reversed time difference in the Purple Yuan Boundary, Zuo Xiaoyao spent the next half month re-examining the world she had previously only seen on the surface, and now roughly understood some things.

  For example, Zuo Xiaoyao had already known that the so-called spiritual root qualification, which once made her doubt herself, actually referred to whether a human body possessed innate spiritual apertures. According to the number of innate spiritual apertures, spiritual root qualifications could be divided into seven grades. Based on the affinity between the spiritual apertures and spiritual energy, they could also be divided into three levels: high, medium, and low. This innate and unchangeable qualification level could be determined through a specialized spiritual boundary test, at least within the spiritual cultivation world, it was absolutely impossible to change!

  For example, when many people in the mortal world think that there are no truly aristocratic families in X country today, Zuo Xiaoyao learned from some classics that introduce some long-standing immortal families in the current immortal world that there are actually branches of these families in the mortal world. Like Luo Hongtian mentioned, those ordinary descendants of immortal families who were identified as ordinary people would basically be sent back to the mortal world. And those ordinary clan members, relying on the support of their true ancestral home, generally developed very well in the mortal world, secretly controlling power and natural resources without revealing themselves. At the same time, if the children of these people are found to have innate qualifications, they will be brought back to the immortal world.

  Now, the current Xian Tian realm has declined, but it is also divided into many large and small forces. Among them, the three gates and two sects with the most prestige are truly in control of the five major forces in the current Xian Tian realm. The few Golden Dan true people that exist today mostly come from these five major forces. Not to mention the actual relationship between the five major forces, but in the eyes of other cultivators, the five major forces seem to rarely have conflicts as they advance and retreat together like allies.

  Like the Shimenling South Gate of Qin Xiao's sect, Feixianmen, which has been hosting the Jiutai Mountain Trade Fair every seven years, is also one of the three gates. The Luo family belongs to the Nanhai Sect, one of the two orthodox sects. The strength of these two gates and one sect can be said to be quite impressive!

  I didn't expect my luck to be pretty good, although I'm not sure if this encounter will bring fortune or disaster in the future. But for now, being able to get in with the prestigious Luo family in the Cultivation Realm through the Clear Dust Pill that I hadn't even been paying attention to should be a good thing. After all, from the limited information she has access to, the Luo family's influence in the Southern Ocean Sect is quite impressive. The Golden Dan True Person in the Southern Ocean Sect may not have come from the Luo family, but they have a deep connection with them.

  It must also be Hongtian Ruo's decision to take on this transaction without hesitation after learning about the Qingchen Dan, not fearing that the Ruo family will be attacked by other forces after standing at the forefront of the storm.