Xiang Xue had plenty to say on that subject. "It seems Hua Xiezhi's and Claire's cultivation techniques were custom-made by First One too."
"Not a coincidence?" Mu Guang had grown used to surprises, yet he could not help muttering.
Then he nodded thoughtfully. "I think I understand why you acknowledge him so much."
"That senior's second attempt to break through to Above Supreme... was that because of him too?"
"Of course it was because of him," Xiang Xue answered crisply. "Didn't you see how old she looked back then? First One helped nurse her back to health."
Mu Guang nodded. This matched the intelligence he knew—Jia Shuiqing had failed her breakthrough and suffered tremendous physical damage.
He had been at the fief for over ten days and had harbored deep doubts about this, but he had never asked.
—Everyone was too close together. Though he was also a Supreme, he could not guarantee that the others would not sense him.
But now that the conversation had reached this point, asking was only natural.
Still, it remained beyond his understanding. "Nurse her back to health... he knows how to do that too?"
"What that senior suffered was not merely depleted vitality, but also the loss of life force. Those are basically irreversible!"
Xiang Xue raised her brows at that, her lips moving slightly, but in the end, she said nothing and merely nodded.
She had some guesses about the Old Lady's recovery, but this involved the team's secrets, and she could not reveal them carelessly.
However, a father knew his daughter best. Mu Guang noticed the change in her expression and suddenly recalled something else.
"I noticed that the Cultivation Rooms you use... seem somewhat different?"
To keep his daughter from failing to understand, he did not point out that they