Liu Sui paused, then looked at the young man before her in surprise. "Xiao Xing, you guessed all that?"
Gu Xing answered with a faint smile. "Sister Sui, you've known for years that I'm naturally sensitive to the ways of water and fire. I've never taken a step beyond Azure Sea Lake, but even here in Tai Chi Hall, I can sense a trace of heart-fire."
"Besides, Blazing Sun Mountain blood runs in my veins. It's only natural that instinct would let me sense it."
Liu Sui could scarcely believe it. That was a Ninth Tier demon king who held the Fire Virtue Fruit Status. Yet a child barely thirty years old had detected his presence.
You said quietly, "Perhaps Grandfather never meant to hide his tracks in the first place."
Liu Sui sighed helplessly. "So that's it. We Sword Way cultivators bury ourselves in training, thinking only of advancing our realms. How could we match the quick minds of you Five Elements cultivators?"
You smiled. "Sister Sui, you're far too perceptive to sell yourself short. Countless cultivators long to walk the Sword Way, yet its very threshold stops more than half of them."
"And if Five Elements cultivators are so quick-witted, as you say, what sort of temperament do those who cultivate Conjoined Fire have?"
Liu Sui smiled. "You always know just what to say, child. But yes, those who cultivate Conjoined Fire do have fiery tempers. Before the Seventh Tier, their divine abilities wield earth-shaking power, though they tend to act fiercely and rashly, without much steadiness."
Cultivation in this world was largely divided among the Five Virtues and Five Elements. Earth Virtue and Wood Virtue flourished above all others, the manifest paths of the age.
Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth generated and restrained one another, but