Mingyue said disdainfully, "Sister, I think you're just too eager to climb higher. There are far too many people called geniuses at the Enlightenment Stage. If they fail to enter the Nirvana Stage in the end, aren't they still good for nothing? And that connection to Lord Heavenly Venerate—what kind of person is Lord Heavenly Venerate? He may seem to praise him to the skies, but those are merely polite words. Would he really give Yang Chen any special care?"
"Besides, no one is bullying us right now."
Mingfeng sighed. How could her younger sister be so arrogantly blind and utterly unwilling to see reason?
Lord Heavenly Venerate truly was the sort who might praise you today, then forget you at any moment. But Yang Chen was entirely different. Their Heavenly Venerate Patriarch had personally invited Yang Chen to Luoxing Island. Was that not Lord Heavenly Venerate's appreciation?
And more importantly, her younger sister had failed to grasp one crucial point.
They truly had not been bullied so far.
But what about the future?
No one bullied them only because they still had room to rise, living under the sect's protection like stars surrounded by the moon. But once they no longer had any value to rise further, the meaning would be entirely different.
At that time, they would be treated as tools for marriage alliances, used to curry favor with people from other factions.
If they were lucky, they might find a decent dual-cultivation partner. Even if they did not like him and were unwilling, at least he would still be a partner.
If they were unlucky, they would be married off directly as someone's dual-cultivation furnace or concubine. That would be truly miserable.
Such things had happened far too often. She knew that many female cultivators who had