"When trouble comes, always seeking reconciliation is useless."
"Come to think of it, if I hadn't clashed with that river god in the first place, we wouldn't have all these troubles today."
"But with a Purple Mansion Realm river god right beside me, how could I cultivate in peace?"
As he spoke, Jiang Sheng ruffled Tian Ming'an's hair. "Think about it, Ming'an."
"On our journey, have we master and disciple gained so few opportunities? Could we have obtained any of them by making peace and giving ground?"
Tian Ming'an nodded thoughtfully.
"On the path of cultivation, there is only advance, never retreat. The greatest taboo is wavering between two ends, losing your footing both coming and going."
With that, Jiang Sheng glanced at the Taiping River surging eastward, then leaped into the air with Tian Ming'an and rode a cloud toward the Moon-Embracing Sect.
The Cha Family had given Jiang Sheng a map of Qing Province, marking the counties of its eight commanderies, the courses of its mountains and rivers, and the locations of its three great sects.
With this map, Jiang Sheng could easily find his way to the Moon-Embracing Sect.
The Moon-Embracing Sect lay between Qing Commandery and Guang Commandery, making it extremely easy to locate.
As one of Qing Province's three great Golden Core Realm sects, the Moon-Embracing Sect's most distinctive feature was that most of its members were female cultivators.
Its current sect master in particular, the Cold Moon Fairy Yue Qi, was a Golden Core Realm True Person renowned throughout Qing Province.
Countless talented young men in Qing Province longed to marry a fairy of the Moon-Embracing Sect as their Dao companion.
The Cold Moon Fairy Yue Qi had formed a middle-grade golden core and had hopes of reaching the Nascent Soul Realm. Her cultivation