As they spoke, a fragrant aroma had already begun to drift from the teapot in the woman's hand. Lu Yang merely caught a whiff of it and felt an inexplicable comfort well up through his entire body.
"Alright."
The next moment, True Lord Splendid Silk Brocade stopped shaking the teapot in her hand. Cloud qi gathered before Lu Yang and formed a teacup, which she filled to the brim. At a glance, Lu Yang saw that the tea within was blue-violet, glimmering with flecks of faint light.
"Drink."
The woman calmly scrutinized Lu Yang without offering any explanation. The blue-violet tea looked extraordinarily strange, as though something had been mixed into it.
Yet Lu Yang did not hesitate in the slightest.
"Thank you, True Lord!"
He raised the teacup and drained it in a single gulp. The decisiveness and speed of his action made even the woman's delicate brows lift slightly in surprise.
He didn't hesitate at all? Was he truly this devoted?
"Then it seems I was the one making a petty judgment." The woman smiled pleasantly, then flicked her sleeve and rose to her feet, vanishing silently from where she stood.
Inside the Tea Pavilion formed from gathered cloud qi, the spiritual qi of heaven and earth flowed in of its own accord. All of it was wood-element spiritual qi, creating an environment incomparably suited to comprehending the wood element. Lu Yang sat within it with his eyes tightly shut, feeling his very soul grow stronger beneath the nourishment of that cup of tea.
Only after a long while did he slowly open his eyes.
The growth in cultivation of a Foundation Establishment True Person was completely different from Qi Refining. In most cases, there was no danger of exhausting one's dharma power; qualitative change lay only in