Showing Goodwill

Below the Spirit Realm lay the Great Thousand Worlds and the Minor Thousand Worlds.

Cultivators from the Great Thousand Worlds could cultivate to the Void Refining Stage before ascending to the Spirit Realm.

Cultivators from the Minor Thousand Worlds, however, could generally cultivate only to the Deity Transformation mid-stage before being rejected by the power of the Heavenly Dao Law and forced to ascend.

Therefore, cultivators who ascended from Minor Thousand Worlds could not possibly possess Deity Transformation late-stage cultivation.

Xu Chunniang smiled faintly. "You are right. In the Minor Thousand Worlds, there is no way to cultivate to the Deity Transformation late-stage. But while I was in the Outer Heavens, I accidentally entered a Desolate Realm rich in spiritual energy and cultivated there for several hundred years."

"I see."

Guo Xuelian nodded in realization, saying enviously, "Most Desolate Realms are exceedingly dangerous. Your luck was truly good, to find one suitable for cultivation.

"At first, I thought you were a cultivator who had come out of another academy. It is just a pity that my luck was poor—I happened to run into General Zi Ye!"

Xu Chunniang vaguely formed a guess. "Why does encountering General Zi Ye count as bad luck?"

"General Zi Ye is impartial as iron and utterly unfeeling. Even if someone delays their military term for objective reasons, they will still be held accountable. The other generals are not so harsh.

"Our seniors at Heavenly God Academy all cultivated in the academy until the Deity Transformation late-stage before performing Military Service. Yet when it came to me, I was assigned to the Black Tiger Army."

Guo Xuelian sighed again and again, clearly deeply troubled.

Xu Chunniang fell silent. Cultivators like Guo Xuelian, born and raised in the Spirit Realm, had to be descendants of those earlier