[You listened with an unchanged expression, though you privately wondered why the purple-robed little girl had truly joined Little Green Peak.]
[Of course, you gave it little thought. It was none of your business.]
[The days in the mountains still flowed quietly as a stream.]
[Half a month passed in the blink of an eye!]
[At last, you cultivated the Primordial One-Qi True Explanation to the perfected state of nine seals.]
[For an ordinary cultivator, nine seals were the limit of the physical body. Yet you felt you still had strength to spare, so you continued circulating the technique, layering more seals within your acupoints.]
[Your spiritual power was now as deep as an abyss, more than five times greater than when you first entered the Dao. Your cultivation stood firmly at the Peak Mid-Heavenly Gate Stage.]
[To outsiders, you were still that Early Body-Shaping Stage cultivator of unremarkable talent.]
[Among the new disciples, you ranked somewhere in the middle—not the worst, but mediocre at best.]
[Seeing this, the green-robed young woman Lü Qingyu even came to offer you a few words of comfort.]
[Though she thought your talent for cultivation was limited, she found you the steadiest and most dependable of the newcomers—]
[The Spirit Garden under your care never had a problem, and the spiritual bamboo you cut always arrived on time.]
[Every task assigned to you was completed with scrupulous care.]
[More precious still was the reassuring air about you, as though anything placed in your hands would be handled properly.]
[Your talent might have been ordinary, but your steadiness made Lü Qingyu remember your name.]
[Zhou Jing, of Clear River Commandery.]
[After three months of observation, you had learned who was who on Little Green Peak.]
[Besides Lü Qingyu and You Sanfeng, the peak had three