[Xuanji saw the unmoved expression on your face and instead smiled with a trace of interest. "Do you think I would teach my Sword Way to just anyone?"]
["This gourd has passed through more than a dozen owners, and not one ever caught so much as a glimpse of my true form."]
[You could not help thinking of True Person Du'e. Even at his death, he had never truly understood how deep the secrets hidden within this gourd ran.]
[Yet people like Daoyuan and Lingmiaozi had been suppressed in the Northern Sky Prison for thousands of years, only for their fortune to grow increasingly concentrated, showing faint signs of great luck gathering over their heads.]
[By all rights, the same should have happened to True Person Du'e. Instead, this gourd artifact had devoured all his fortune, and he had ultimately died.]
[Your father had probably established this heavenly prison for more than the simple purpose of confinement.]
[An inexplicable trace of wariness arose in your heart. If your father had foreseen the upheaval in the Northern Sky Prison, could he have planted his pieces long ago? The depth and reach of such schemes were truly terrifying.]
[As for Xuanji before you, although he had manifested his true form, his fortune had clearly been severely depleted. He probably could not maintain this state for long.]
[You looked at Xuanji and spoke at an unhurried pace. "The Sword Ancestor's Sword Way is indeed astounding. But to me, it is not the only path."]
["I cultivate Azure Sea Lake's Can Shui and have inherited Blazing Sun Mountain's Hearth Fire. Both are orthodox paths of the Five Elements, broad roads to fruit status. Since I already have a great path beneath my feet, why should I cling to the Sword Way of Void Certification?"]