Wang Qi did not continue dwelling on that demon. Deng Jiaxuan's attitude had been very clear: he plainly wanted the few of them to keep their noses out of this matter.
Before they had strength and a solid foundation, meddling in the Immortal Alliance's secrets would only bring disaster upon themselves. They had at least that much self-awareness. With insufficient known conditions, the conclusions one could deduce were limited.
So Wang Qi decided to leave the matter alone for now and focus on cultivating properly.
Even if he was curious, he could investigate it later. Just as Ai Qinglan had said, he would at least need to become a Grandmaster first.
Having thought it through, Wang Qi settled down and prepared to cultivate the Tianyan cultivation method. After asking Ai Qinglan for several key points regarding the cultivation of the Tianyan Tulu, he requested a quiet room and sat down cross-legged.
Though he was still at the initial stage of Qi Refining, Wang Qi's mana had grown considerably. Various currents of mana flowed ceaselessly through his body. The strongest among them was Tianyan mana, which ran vertically from the crown of his head straight to his dantian and horizontally through the Laogong points in both palms.
After Yang Jun had wounded him with his power of increasing entropy, the various kinds of mana within Wang Qi had fallen into disorder. Whenever he circulated his qi, it would inevitably deviate, making him extremely prone to cultivation deviation and demonic backlash. An ordinary cultivator would not even have been able to suppress such a bizarre injury.
Yet the Tianyan Tulu was indeed miraculous. Even if errors arose during circulation, it could turn those mistakes into new circulation routes. And Ai Qinglan's little bean—bah, Mendel's Pea—was no ordinary item either. Even as the