After Furnace Cultivating Hundred Scriptures had nurtured a Human World Sword, Lin Jiufeng emerged from seclusion.
The moment he stepped out of the study, he saw White Fox guarding the door for him.
Afraid that someone insensitive might come and disturb Lin Jiufeng's Secluded Cultivation, White Fox had kept watch outside the study the entire time.
Now that she saw Lin Jiufeng emerge, White Fox's eyes lit up. She immediately wanted to leap into his arms, but the next instant, she stopped herself and circled around him, studying him suspiciously.
Lin Jiufeng generously turned around once and asked, "Is there anything different?"
The moment White Fox heard Lin Jiufeng's voice, she relaxed at once. Leaping into his arms, she muttered, "The aura around you just now felt so contradictory."
"How was it contradictory?" Lin Jiufeng asked curiously.
"You carried a heavy aura of Mortal Worldly Affairs, the air of the vast mortal realm, yet you also gave off an aura as though you could ascend at any moment. It was very contradictory." White Fox wrinkled her nose and spoke softly.
Lin Jiufeng understood. This was likely the conflict between his advancement to the late stage of the Ninth Restriction and his comprehension of the Human World Sword.
That was why White Fox found it contradictory.
Lin Jiufeng rubbed White Fox's head without explaining, instead asking, "How long was I in Secluded Cultivation?"
"One month!" White Fox answered immediately. She had guarded Lin Jiufeng's study for an entire month and had kept track of every day.
"One month already. As expected, cultivation knows no passage of years. To me, it felt like only an instant." Carrying White Fox, Lin Jiufeng walked into the Tea Room and sighed.
"Nothing major happened in the Feather Transformation Sect during this month of Secluded Cultivation,