"Truth...?"
Watching Elder Chengfeng gesture grandly before him, Su Xinghe silently repeated the words in his heart.
Indeed, his thinking had been confined by the predicament before him.
Or rather, at its root, he had been bound by the so-called safety he had woven for himself.
The Fate Panel had given him the trait of reaping rewards as long as he worked hard. But if he only worked hard within a program set by others, then no matter how much he developed, he would never break out of that framework.
After all, this was a world where individual power reigned supreme. How could those at the top allow someone beyond their control to rise from the lower ranks?
Ordinary talented martial artists might not notice this vast net, but his talent had already reached a certain threshold.
Not to mention anything else.
The Demon Suppression Bureau's exchange system alone
had unknowingly isolated the lower ranks.
At this moment, Su Xinghe understood Lu Xuanji a little better.
That outstanding prodigy of the Lu Family had likely noticed the barriers imposed by the upper class while at Qingzhou Academy.
With no hope for the future, he could only seek another path.
On one hand, he had his family seize Lin County's interests to support his cultivation. On the other, he had thrown in his lot with the Peaceful Heaven Sect, hoping to break through the bottleneck set by the academy.
Only, he had chosen the wrong direction.
In the end, he still could not escape the Zhou Martial Royal House's chessboard, becoming the Crown Prince's Junior Guardian.
"Go out..."
That thought was like a seed, beginning to take root and sprout in Su Xinghe's heart.
"An elite disciple slot in the Golden Baleful Peak's Black Tortoise Lineage. What do you think,