"Master, you're so powerful! When you said that, those people didn't even dare let out a fart."
Ye Yun looked at Xiaoyao with stars glittering in her eyes, her face full of worship.
Xiaoyao merely smiled and said nothing.
"Master, who was that woman just now? Was she an old flame of yours?"
Ye Yun leaned close to Xiaoyao and asked. While absorbing the Cloud Essence earlier, she had seen her master chatting with a beautiful older sister.
It immediately stirred up her love of gossip.
"Don't be so nosy. I'll teach you how to refine the Cloud Essence in your body now. Though the Cloud Essence isn't of a high grade, it's the most suitable precious medicine for someone like you who hasn't cultivated."
Xiaoyao rapped Ye Yun on the head, while inwardly lamenting how miserably his original body had risen in its early days—it had not even heard of Cloud Essence.
Then Xiaoyao channeled the power within his body into Ye Yun's, helping her refine the Cloud Essence. Once her meridians had been strengthened, he began teaching Ye Yun how to cultivate.
Awakening one's Spirit Root at eighteen and only then coming into contact with cultivation—those were merely surface claims spread by the sects, meant to better bluff the common folk.
Yet there was some basis for it. At eighteen, one's meridians were fully formed, and it truly was the best age to cultivate.
But which true favored child of heaven had not begun cultivating before the age of eighteen? One step ahead, every step ahead—that was how it came to be.
Just then, Red Tiger abruptly stopped in midair. Its wings beat as its massive body hung silently in the sky.
Sensing the disturbance, Xiaoyao furrowed his brows and looked ahead.
There stood a bald man in