First Hearing of the Nine-Rank Path to Divinity!

Seeing Jiang Wangzu remain unmoved, the old man first froze slightly, then looked at Yan Ruyu.

Yan Ruyu made a money-counting gesture at him.

The mature, alluring woman beside the old man saw Yan Ruyu's gesture too, so she directly took out five hundred-yuan silver notes, attached force to them, and threw them toward Jiang Wangzu.

The five silver notes shot straight at Jiang Wangzu like five incomparably hard square throwing darts.

Seeing this, Jiang Wangzu used Black Tiger Cloud-Searching Scattered Hands and caught the five hundred-yuan silver notes outright.

"Five hundred silver dollars for one sparring session?"

This time, Jiang Wangzu was truly shocked.

The other side was really too wildly extravagant!

Hearing this, the mature, alluring woman's almond eyes widened slightly, and she grew a little angry.

Five hundred silver dollars for one sparring session—where else could he find such a wonderful deal?

For a great force expert like her to spar with someone once would cost more than five hundred silver dollars!

Forget him—even the old man with graying beard and hair was shocked.

This kid really dared to name a price!

"Old Man Chen, Sister Han, please don't take offense."

"It's just that A-Zu has been really short on money lately to buy secret strength-training medicine."

"He isn't someone who sees money and forgets everything."

Yan Ruyu frantically tried to smooth things over for Jiang Wangzu.

You're wrong!

I'm exactly someone who sees money and forgets everything.

Jiang Wangzu grumbled inwardly.

"To receive a single pointer from my master is worth more than a thousand silver dollars."

The mature, alluring woman looked at Jiang Wangzu and curled her lips in disdain.

"Kid, if you can truly satisfy my disciple."

"From now on, this old man will cover all your secret strength-training medicine."

"But if you do poorly as this sparring partner, then after three days, you and I will have nothing more to do with each other."

The old man with graying beard and hair said in a deep voice.

"Old Master Chen, don't worry. I guarantee you'll be satisfied!"

Hearing this, Jiang Wangzu grinned and spoke.

At worst, they would part ways after three days. In any case, he would take a beating and earn five portions of Black Tiger Powder secret medicine—blood profit.

He wouldn't lose out!

Seeing that Jiang Wangzu had directly killed the conversation, Yan Ruyu exchanged a few private words with the mature, alluring woman surnamed Han, then left with Jiang Wangzu.

"That kid's bone structure is average. His bone age is seventeen or eighteen, his strength training is at minor success, and his foundation isn't very solid. He probably hasn't had guidance from a famous teacher."

"Still, being able to achieve this much can already be considered outstanding."

"And he is an innate anomaly. Both his kidneys are abnormally powerful, and they have even undergone a mutation. That is enough to make up for his bone-structure issue."

"Although he has already lost his virginity and isn't a Pure Yang Body, the yang energy in his body is absolutely no weaker than that of a Pure Yang Body."

"If you can dual cultivate with him, not only can yin and yang be harmonized, curing your Three Yin Severed Pulse condition."

"It can also make your cultivation rise another step after reaching a hundred-foot pole; stepping into the innate realm in the future would not be empty talk."

"Pretty girl, you really should consider it carefully."

After Jiang Wangzu and Yan Ruyu left, the old man said solemnly.

"He already has Sister Ruyu by his side. How could I bear to cut in and steal another's love?"

"And you said it yourself—he's only seventeen or eighteen, while I'm already thirty. Isn't that unsuitable?"

The mature, alluring woman thought for a moment, and she was also somewhat moved.

"Isn't it perfectly normal for men to have three wives and four concubines?"

"And you only need to borrow his yang energy for a while. There's no need for you to insist on marrying no one but him."

"So you and that girl Yan don't count as competitors."

"Besides, that girl Yan treats you like a sister. Naturally, I can see that she has feelings for Jiang Wangzu, yet she still brought Jiang Wangzu to meet you."

"That is enough to prove that, in her heart, you are more important than Jiang Wangzu."

"So why must you refuse this kindness of hers?"

The old man said.

"Let's make contact with him first and see."

"If Master's judgment is wrong, and the vigorous yang energy in him is of no use against the yin baleful energy in my body, then this matter need not be mentioned again."

"Even without a pure-yang person, I was born with the Three Yin Severed Pulse and was destined not to live to adulthood, yet I still lived thirty years and learned a fine set of martial skills. I should be content."

The mature, beautiful woman spoke with deep feeling.

"Sigh!"

"You, honestly..."

The old man shook his head helplessly.

Meanwhile, Yan Ruyu and Jiang Wangzu left the antique private residence and headed straight for the Yan Family Mansion.

"Doctor Yan, what exactly are the backgrounds of that old man and that woman? They feel really powerful to me."

Jiang Wangzu asked aloud.

"As for that old man's surname and name, I'm afraid no one can really say."

"I only know his nickname is Chen Liujia!"

"He was the strongest martial zhuangyuan of the previous dynasty. In the martial examinations—horseback archery, foot archery, drawing the heavy bow, wielding the great saber, lifting stone locks, and military strategy essays—he ranked first-class in all six, and by a cliff-fall lead at that."

"During the palace examination for the martial exam, he defeated ten first-rank saber-bearing guards by himself, and the emperor called him Chen Liujia."

"From then on, almost no one mentioned his real name. Everyone called him Chen Liujia."

"He once served as commander of the Dragon Guard and was Emperor Tianyi's first martial instructor. Later, in order to study martial arts in depth, he resigned and returned home, concealing his name and coming to Shen City."

"Not many people in Shen City now know his background. My grandfather once served as an imperial physician of the previous dynasty and was familiar with him, which is why I know where he comes from."

"As for the woman at his side, her name is Han Qiao. She can be considered someone I've known since childhood, and she is also the only true disciple Old Master Chen accepted after coming to Shen City."

Yan Ruyu thought for a moment, then spoke.

Strictly speaking, she and Jiang Wangzu had only known each other for a little over ten days, so she should not have told Jiang Wangzu such secret matters.

But she still did.

Because in her heart, she had already regarded Jiang Wangzu as a true friend.

"Then how strong is Old Master Chen?"

"And how strong is Han Qiao?"

Jiang Wangzu could not help asking curiously.

In this world, all things had spirit, skills could reach the divine, and among the three hundred and sixty trades, every trade could lead to heaven!

Cultivators took their profession as root, their trade as Dao, and craftsmanship as honor, performing the deeds of gods with the bodies of mortals!

Yan Ruyu's medical cultivation was one path of cultivation.

Jiang Wangzu's martial path was also one path of cultivation.

But shamefully, even now, he still did not know how many realms the martial path could be divided into.

"In this world, among the three hundred and sixty trades, every trade can lead to heaven!"

"Whether you are a porter or a peddler, or someone who pulls carts and sells drink, any profession, so long as you are willing to study it deeply, can cultivate extraordinary power. Commonly, that is called entering the trade."

"But with some professions, even after entering the trade and walking it to the extreme, one remains no more than a common mortal sort, with no path for further advancement."

"For example, a coachman. Even if he cultivates Wind-Fire Wheels and awakens Flying Legs, he will only be a coachman his whole life."

"Unless he can change professions and step into a more complete trade. For example, many coachmen who entered the trade changed profession to martial artists and carved out resounding names for themselves."

"But some professions are naturally a cut above the rest, and possess complete paths of advancement. They can also be called the Nine-Rank Path to Divinity!"

"The path of medical cultivation I mentioned, and your martial path, are both complete Nine-Rank Paths to Divinity!"

Yan Ruyu did not answer Jiang Wangzu's question. Instead, she first gave Jiang Wangzu a bit of general instruction.

After interacting with him for so many days, she knew Jiang Wangzu did not come from a good family, and that his stepping onto the martial path had also been due to a meeting of fate and chance coincidence.

So he did not understand the cultivation system of the three hundred and sixty trades.