Seeing Chen Changming look troubled, his brows slightly furrowed as he remained silent for some time, the green-robed woman smiled calmly. Her smile was like a spring breeze brushing across the water, carrying a perceptiveness that seemed to see straight into his heart.
She waved a hand and said lightly, "Chen Shan, don't worry. Our Medicine Sect actually has a God Spirit Reed too-it's being raised in the Ninth Divine Mechanism Palace, and it's several thousand years older than yours. I simply saw how pure your specimen's foundation was and felt a fondness for its potential. I thought that feeding it some more remains of other races might help it advance further, that's all. If you're unwilling, we can leave it at that."
"I've made a fool of myself before you, Sect Master."
Chen Changming shook his head and rubbed his hands awkwardly. With a self-mocking expression, he gave a bitter smile and said, "I've always been an independent cultivator. I wandered all the way from Wilderness Island to Eastern Jin before joining the Medicine Sect. Having joined halfway through my journey, my foundations are shallow. Whenever something touches on my own interests, I keep looking ahead and behind, afraid to move a hand or foot. I've embarrassed myself before you."
"What? You actually made your way from the Wilderness all the way into Great Jin?"
At his words, the green-robed woman's eyes flew wide, her pupils abruptly contracting. The calm, composed smile on her face receded like the tide, replaced by utter shock.
As a cultivator who had ascended from the Human Realm herself, she knew better than anyone how difficult it was for an independent cultivator from the Wilderness to cross Great Qin and enter Great Jin-
It was even harder than ascending to the Spirit Realm.
Wilderness