Xu Muxian's Nascent Soul Formation had come as quite a surprise to Luo Chen.
After all, Luo Chen had only casually taken him in as a Registered Disciple because he showed some talent in medicinal herbs. As far as cultivation went, Luo Chen had not thought highly of him.
His Dao heart was unsteady, he was not particularly diligent in cultivation, and he had started a family at a young age.
Had Luo Chen not kept him in check, he likely would have broken his Primordial Yang body before reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Yet who would have thought that he would later encounter such great fortune?
Or perhaps it had not been some chance encounter at all, but a change in his state of mind. He had willingly left the comfortable Flying Swallow Islands and ventured alone into the Northern Sea.
Cheng Haixin's path to Nascent Soul Formation, however, had been within Luo Chen's expectations.
After Cheng Haixin reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, she began cultivating the Azure Sun Pill Canon that Luo Chen had left behind. This so-called Azure Sun Pill Canon was actually an improved version Luo Chen had derived from the top-grade Core Formation Secret Technique, the Micro Dust Origin Art.
Later, before Luo Chen formed his Nascent Soul and returned to the Eastern Wasteland, he visited the Flying Swallow Islands once.
That visit had not merely been for intimacy with Cheng Haixin. Luo Chen had also deliberately left behind a great quantity of cultivation resources.
Golden Core Stage cultivation pills, supplementary pills, cultivation insights, methods and experience for breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm, and even a Nascent Soul Pill!
Over the following several centuries, Luo Chen had visited the Northern Sea twice.
Neither time had he met with her.
First, he had been