The fondness and love Qingyu felt for the young man before her, who could hardly be called handsome—a feeling she could never erase and would never change in this lifetime—had now been overwhelmed by profound shock.
She truly could not understand what sort of talent this utterly unremarkable young man possessed, when he exuded no imposing aura whatsoever.
As the Emperor Venerable's sole avatar, she could already be considered extraordinarily gifted.
Emperor Venerable Ye Song had cultivated only one avatar, Qingyu, and so he had spared no effort in imprinting the greatest cultivation talent he could bestow into her body.
Compared with the avatars of other Emperor Venerables, she could not claim to combine the talents of several people, but she was ultimately a cut above them.
Her cultivation time and her comprehension of the Great Dao had already proven that.
Yet now, this cultivator who had ascended from a minor realm like the Human Realm, where cultivation resources were even scarcer, had left Qingyu feeling disheartened.
As Qin Fengming looked at the beautiful female cultivator before him, he suddenly noticed uncertainty flickering in her eyes, and something stirred faintly in his heart.
"Qingyu, the way I cultivate and advance is very different from other cultivators. I can advance several times in succession within an extremely short period, but you cannot do that. That is because my Spiritual Root attribute is exceptionally unusual.
"Although spiritual energy is thin in the Human Realm, there are still strange, dangerous places brimming with energy. Other people who enter those places would have no path but death, yet I have repeatedly found life amid certain death. Just like this lake—others dare not enter it, but I can. So you need not concern yourself with how quickly or slowly you cultivate."
One's state of mind