Welcome to the Kindling Society Base!

[Ancient Ferry, you and Ji Wuqing nearly came to blows over something Adou said.]

[Fortunately, Ji Wuqing put the bigger picture first and did not bicker with a child.]

[Ji Wuqing: "Children speak without restraint. I'm not angry. Children speak without restraint. I'm not angry..."]

[Adou: "Uncle Chen, the female ghost called me a child. I'm clearly a teenager!"]

[You: "Dou, stop talking and go to sleep..."]

[If this were a comic, you would see that Ji Wuqing's head was now much bigger than her body, with a huge mass of black stress lines above it and steam blasting from her nostrils.]

[Ji Wuqing: "I'll endure... I'll endure..."]

[With Adou interrupting like that, Ji Wuqing forgot to press you about your Cultivation Method.]

[From her inner thoughts, you heard: I'm young and beautiful, peerlessly charming, devoted to the greater good, fair and impartial. What child wouldn't like me when they saw me? That damned little brat actually called me a female ghost! Sob, sob, sob...]

[Low-level Jiahao Behavior detected. Jiahao Points +1.]

[After Ji Wuqing's emotions settled somewhat, the two of you finally began discussing business.]

[Ji Wuqing clapped her hands, and a small boat drifted down from the riverbank some distance away.]

[Once the boat docked, more than a dozen people disembarked.]

[They were all members of the Kindling Society. They had come with Ji Wuqing tonight to make contact and were responsible for escorting the Chosen One to the Vermilion Purple Star Kindling Society base.]

[You used Signal Light to investigate them.]

[Fifteen people: three at the Heaven-Reaching Realm, nine at the Desolate Realm, and three women with very low cultivation. They had likely been assigned to care for Adou's daily needs along the journey, considering he was still a child.]

[After all, the Chosen One bore extraordinary