The moment Yunxi heard this, she immediately wiped the expression from her face and gave a light cough.
"Not at all."
Haoyi smiled harmlessly.
"The cultivation technique I practice came from the Immortal Realm. I found it within an ancient secret realm. I must undergo nine revolutions before I can ascend to the Immortal Realm, and every revolution requires me to disperse my cultivation and begin again from scratch. In return, my lifespan increases as well."
After hearing that, Yunxi understood. Just thinking about it sounded exhausting. This method of cultivation was practically self-torture; dispersing one's own cultivation was no laughing matter. One wrong move could damage the cultivator himself. No wonder Old Ancestor Hao Yi vanished without a trace every so often.
Yunxi held herself back, but in the end, she could not help asking quietly,
"Old Ancestor, if your enemies learned the pattern of when you disperse your cultivation, wouldn't that make things even more dangerous?"
Whenever the Old Ancestor dispersed her cultivation and began anew, she would be an ordinary mortal. Any cultivator at the Qi Refining stage could kill her with ease.
Old Ancestor Hao Yi smiled faintly.
"When I disperse my cultivation is up to me. The speed and duration of every recultivation are also under my control. At the very least, over these past ten thousand years, no one has managed to attack me when I was at my weakest."
Yunxi nodded in understanding. Having satisfied her curiosity, she presented the jade slip she had recorded to Old Ancestor Hao Yi.
Haoyi browsed through the jade slip very quickly, and his expression remained fairly calm. Yet only those familiar with him could sense the storm brewing in his eyes.
Yunxi keenly sensed that Old Ancestor Hao Yi was in a very bad mood at