Yu Lian forced out a dry smile and stared at his eldest senior brother, who was deep in thought, with an awkward yet polite gaze. The latter seemed to sense the plaintive look in Yu Lian's eyes, so he, too, gave an awkward yet polite smile and said, "Well, little junior brother, your experience really isn't much use to everyone. Apart from you, only I and Natalia have completed the seventh ring. That girl Nat... Sigh, she was quite the party girl when she was young, but the older she got, the closer she came to the side of truth, and the less she wanted anything worldly."
Oh, so my desires were worldly, were they? This was clearly called following the natural way, wasn't it?
"You're giving that girl way too much credit. She was wild in her youth; she just grasped the pure truth once she reached middle age," Master Lan said with a perfectly straight face.
"Well, well, well! Where did this old gentleman come from? He's always so high and mighty when talking about others, yet he always forgets who set such a fine example," Madam Mei mocked.
Eldest Senior Brother continued, "As for me, I'm just an ordinary person. I had an ordinary education and upbringing, practiced cultivation and martial arts in the ordinary way, then ordinarily got married and had children. My life's been pretty dull."
And then, in the most ordinary fashion, he became the first of the Seven Children of the Spirit Research Society to reach the seventh ring. You could only say that Eldest Senior Brother was born for the orthodox cultivation path, advancing step by step. People like him also naturally gave off the air of a grandmaster.
Of course, in another timeline, Tantai Jing had remained stuck at the Saint