It was said that when True Lord Qing Yao had accidentally entered the Void, Hanhai had only recently reached the Nascent Soul High Stage. Yet he remembered that Senior Aunt Qing Yao had been spirited and ambitious then, the true pillar of the Mysterious Water Sect.
At the time, Immortal Cang Jing was already nearing two thousand years old, yet she was only at the Seventh-Level Nascent Soul.
True Lord Qing Yao was proud and arrogant. Like most masters, she favored good students and found Cang Jing exceptionally dull. She did not think much of her, frequently scolding her and demanding that she hurry up and cultivate.
What Hanhai remembered most clearly was how, on one occasion, she had actually compared him with Cang Jing. "You are both at the Seventh-Level Nascent Soul. Look at how old Hanhai is, then look at yourself! How did I end up taking on a disciple like you?"
Immortal Cang Jing had trembled under the reprimand, but after True Lord Qing Yao disappeared, she soared into prominence instead, advancing two levels in less than two hundred years.
Yet Elder Cang Jing bore no grudge against Qing Yao. On the contrary, she was deeply grateful to her master, saying that her master had been strict because she hated to see iron fail to become steel. In any case, her master had always given her more cultivation resources than necessary and had never shortchanged her.
As for why her master only scolded her and not her younger junior brothers and sisters, that had also been because she had hoped Cang Jing would set an example. And her performance back then truly had been abysmal.
Hanhai Venerable Lord did not see it that way. He knew Qing Yao cared greatly about appearances and truly had been furious