Mo Hua was already fourteen years old.
Cultivators had long lifespans. Even ordinary Qi Refining cultivators could live roughly one or two hundred years.
A cultivator in their early teens was not considered old.
Bai Zisheng had told Mo Hua that in some great aristocratic families, cultivators under eighteen were all considered children.
Because cultivators from such families generally had high cultivation and long lifespans, a dozen or so years simply amounted to nothing.
But in Immortal City, or in other lower-tier immortal cities, most independent cultivators would likely remain stuck at the Qi Refining realm for their entire lives.
Thus, once they were over fifteen, they were considered young adults.
If they had no path in cultivation and could not advance their realm, they had to find a cultivation trade to learn so they could support themselves in the future.
That was how Da Hu and Da Zhu were.
Da Hu and the other two studied Monster Hunting, while Da Zhu studied Artifact Refining.
All so they could earn a full meal.
Mo Hua was already a First-Grade Array Master and could support himself, but he still looked young.
First, he had been frail from birth and grew slowly, so he was somewhat shorter than others his age.
Second, he had never tempered his body, making him look even more slender.
Da Hu and Da Zhu, on the other hand, were naturally broad-built and tall, and they both trained their bodies. Though they were only three or four years older than Mo Hua, they stood much taller than him.
Mo Hua could not help but sigh.
He wanted to grow tall and strong too.
What a pity. He drew arrays every day, exhausting both mind and body. He ate quite a lot, yet simply refused to grow...
He was