"But... even if I hit a bottleneck, I won't go fight bloody battles. At worst, I'll just slowly grind away at it..."
Aaron put away the magical longblade, intending to sell it together with the others in a few days. Secretly, he made up his mind. As for spiritual pills? I really don't have any...
As he left the artifact-refining room, he noticed a streak of fire flashing back and forth through the main hall of the cave abode. He reached out and grabbed it.
A great hand of mana seized the fiery light, and Zhong Wuyou's voice came from within. It was a sound transmission talisman.
"So it's Little Zhong. Heh... he tested me before, and now he finally can't hold back anymore?"
Aaron had been finding secluded cultivation unbearably dull. Besides, he had already reached a bottleneck; perhaps going out more often and gaining insight into the Great Dao would make a breakthrough easier.
He stepped outside his cave abode, patted his storage pouch, and sent the White Cloud Shuttle flying out. It carried him to Zhong Wuyou's cave abode.
"Elder Zhong, Fang has come at your invitation."
Zhong Wuyou's cave abode was built in lavish splendor, with numerous Qi Refinement cultivators attending to him. He clearly knew far better than Aaron how to enjoy life.
"Haha, Elder Fang, please come to the garden for a chat." A transmitted voice sounded.
Aaron descended into the garden, where he saw the decrepit Zhong Wuyou teasing several children of uncertain generation. The scene of him playing with his grandchildren, blissfully surrounded by family, was one of perfect harmony.
Only after seeing Aaron arrive did he wave for the servants to take the children away, then entered a pavilion with Aaron and sat down.
Looking at Aaron's utterly unchanged face, he