Although Li Qi did not mind, Old Ma seemed deeply ashamed and chose to leave of his own accord.
Li Qi panicked. If Old Ma left, was he supposed to rely on his own two legs to find Lady Luofu?
After he said that, Shen Shuibi looked delighted. She stood up and called toward the distance.
Old Ma ultimately came back.
Horses could not blush, but the guilt in his eyes still made his feelings plain.
As expected of a Dragon Steed that had already awakened its spirit—his expressions were so vivid.
Li Qi did not say much. As Old Ma came over and rubbed his horse face against him, Li Qi merely propped himself up, patted his neck, and said, "Why say such things? Help each other, help each other~."
After that, he let Old Ma go eat grass on his own.
Then he moved on to the part that truly interested him: the so-called Carp Flowing Intent.
According to Shen Shuibi, it was a martial arts method that imitated carp. It was rather crude and could only be cultivated to the eighth rank at most, so it was also called an eighth-rank cultivation method.
It was Li Qi's first time hearing of such a grading system, but it seemed rather logical.
Cultivation methods had limits. Crude ones like Wave-Pushing Strength, even when cultivated to great mastery—as Li Qi had—could only barely produce a thread of inner qi, and even that required squeezing one's body dry. It was utter trash that did not even qualify for a rank.
Something like the "Shaman" book, on the other hand, was a first-rank cultivation method. It meant that this set of cultivation methods could lead directly to the first rank, without detours along the way. All dangers had already been crossed by