"Nothing."
Chen Changqing explained casually.
"I looked through it once, thought it wasn't difficult, and practiced it while I was at it."
Xuanyuan Xiaoyu opened her mouth, but no sound came out for a long while.
Practiced it while he was at it?
This was the Human King Heaven-Suppressing Seal, not some qi-nourishing technique from a roadside stall!
Liu Ruyan, on the other hand, remained utterly calm.
It would have been absurd if it happened to anyone else.
But on Chen Changqing, it was perfectly normal.
Chen Changqing raised his right hand and circulated spiritual energy according to the cultivation method in his mind.
A golden seal slowly took shape in his palm.
At first, the golden seal was only the size of a fingernail.
A few breaths later, a vast expanse of golden light suddenly appeared above the entire Snow-Listening Lodge.
Everyone in the courtyard felt their cultivation simultaneously suppressed.
The spiritual energy within Liu Ruyan stalled for a moment.
The imperial jade pendant at Xuanyuan Xiaoyu's waist lit up on its own, blocking the suppression.
"Withdraw!"
Chen Changqing clenched his five fingers, and the golden light in the sky swiftly dispersed.
The snow bamboo nearby straightened once more.
But all the tea on the stone table had already spilled out.
Chen Changqing looked at the wet tabletop, somewhat embarrassed.
"It was my first time practicing it. I didn't control it well."
Xuanyuan Xiaoyu sat back down and remained silent for a long time.
When Father had mastered the first level of the Human King Heaven-Suppressing Seal, it had taken him a full seven months.
Yet this guy's very first circulation could already affect the heavens and earth around him.
The gap between people was simply too great.
Chen Changqing put the scroll away in the Heaven Treading Ring,