When Xiang Yan uttered the words "Immortal Cultivation," Chu Huai Xu felt an electric current shoot through his entire body, raising goosebumps all over him.
Earlier, when he had suddenly mentioned Golden Core and Nascent Soul, Chu Huai Xu had already faintly sensed that something was off.
There was nothing he could do about it. He had read far too many xianxia novels. So this was the world background that Borrowed Sword had hidden at the beginning?
In his understanding, immortal cultivation novels actually only had three realms, just as netizens had summed them up.
Those you could beat belonged to the ant realm, those of roughly equal strength belonged to the fellow daoist realm, and those you could not beat belonged to the senior realm.
He had never expected that, inside the Origin Spirit Realm, he would have to face a—
Immortal cultivator!
Yet precisely because of this, one of the puzzles in his heart was finally solved.
"Before this, I had always wondered why everyone in the Xuanhuang Realm described themselves as merely cultivating, and only called themselves cultivators in Borrowed Sword."
"It was the same after I transmigrated."
"So that's how it was. So that's how it was!"
"It was because they weren't practicing immortal cultivation at all!"
Inside the main hall, everyone saw Chu Huai Xu standing there in a daze, so they did not say anything more. Instead, they waited for him to slowly digest it.
Back then, when they had learned the truth, they had also been shocked for quite some time upon realizing that the people on the other side were a group of "madmen" bent on becoming immortals.
After a while, Chu Huai Xu finally asked, "Sect Leader, when I enter the First Layer of the Origin Spirit Realm, what level of