Compilation of Karmic Opportunities

After coming down from Dongyang Mountain, he made another trip to Longjiabao Manor and paid Tu Junyi a visit there.

Over the years, as Wuchao Market had grown ever more prosperous, Gengsang Cave's administrative focus had increasingly tilted eastward, making it more and more like a proper Jingxiang Sect. As the sect's Steward Elder, Tu Junyi also appeared at Longjiabao Manor more and more often, handling all manner of urgent and leisurely affairs.

Thus, Liu Xiaolou did not wait long. After sitting briefly in Zhang Xiaojin's quarters for half an hour, Tu Junyi cleared some time and invited him to drink tea in the rear garden.

Just as he had with Lou Zhenwu, Liu Xiaolou presented a gourd of Golden Ring Honey and two taels of July Fragrant Orchid Seeds, two specialties of Wulong Mountain, then once again sought guidance on the karmic opportunity for forming a core.

That single question sent Tu Junyi reminiscing for a very, very long time. He began twenty-eight years ago and spoke for three days and three nights without pause.

A thousand words could be condensed into one sentence: twenty-seven years ago, his wife bore him a son, and after gaining a son, he formed his core. The following twenty-seven years of his tale had nothing to do with core formation. He went on at length about Young Master Tu's upbringing, only drawing to a satisfied close once Young Master Tu had reached twenty-seven years of age. He said that Liu Xiaolou's experiences growing up were much like his own child's: both were young men who had risen through hardship, hard work, and struggle.

"Why does this old man think so highly of you? Because when this old man looks at you, it is as though he sees Chengda as a child. He suffered