Yan Beifeng shook his head, his lips pressed tightly together, his face resolute. "No need to ask anyone else. Treat it this way."
Hearing that, the female cultivator was a little worried. "The Springwatch Valley He Family's method isn't mainstream."
She knew very well what kind of predicament her prospective Dao partner faced. If he made it through, the world would open wide before him; if he failed, he would fall into a bottomless abyss—his situation was too unusual, and it had been delayed for too long. Once he made a choice, there would basically be no chance to change it.
Yan Beifeng smiled and said something cutting. "Because he said... it's a pity I'm not a female cultivator."
The female cultivator frowned. "Isn't that a perfectly ordinary statement? You were never a female cultivator to begin with."
"That's precisely the key," Yan Beifeng said with a somewhat strange smile. "Yajuan, I've always been too embarrassed to tell you, but since Feng Jun said it, I'll tell you as well... My injury has dragged on for so long mainly because I'm a Qian Cultivation practitioner."
"I don't think so," the female cultivator said, somewhat agitated. "Back then, I told you we could go to the Azuresteel Sect together. You said I was more suited to the Red Phoenix Sect and wanted to come with me, so I joined Red Phoenix. And now you're saying... you've been wronged?"
"I'm willing to be wronged," Yan Beifeng shot back, then immediately smiled again. "Will you let me finish? I didn't want you to feel guilty, so I never said anything, but I know what I'm doing."
Yajuan's face darkened. "What do you know... Isn't it just because you think the Red Phoenix Sect has more female cultivators?"
"Can you be reasonable?" Yan Beifeng