Changes and Bequests

The Cloud Ship left Ping Province and entered the East Sea, heading south without pause. At last, a month later, it returned to Ying Province.

Liang Zhaohuang led the family disciples off the Cloud Ship and into Ying Province City, where, as customary, they paid visits to the Prefect's residence and the Xie Family.

The news they received was that Prefect Xie was not in Ying Province City. He had already gone to oversee the waters around the Pearl Island Chain in the East Sea, responding to the unusual movements of the Demon Country.

Meanwhile, Liang Zhaohuang did not get to see Xie Wenyun at the Xie Family either. Xie Wenyun had not gone to the Pearl Island Chain waters or the Myriad Demon Mystic Realm, but had instead entered secluded cultivation and was seeing no visitors.

Upon receiving this news, Liang Zhaohuang's heart stirred slightly, and he immediately understood. Xie Wenyun's seclusion was likely in preparation for breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm.

When Xie Wenyun had broken through to the Golden Core Realm, he too had formed a superior-grade Golden Core, giving him hope of advancing to the Nascent Soul Realm.

Moreover, he had advanced to the Golden Core Realm over twenty years before Liang Zhaohuang. With the support of the Xie Family, a prominent Ying Province clan, he lacked neither talent, resources, foundation, nor inheritance.

Now that Liang Zhaohuang himself was already considering a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm, it was naturally nothing strange for the other man to begin secluded cultivation in an attempt to breach the Nascent Soul Realm.

Thinking of this, Liang Zhaohuang could only sigh inwardly. As time flowed on, among the cultivators who had been of his generation—whether friends or rivals—those lacking in cultivation, talent, and opportunities had naturally begun