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"Hm?"

"Master, you fought him?!"

Ji Yuan had caught the crucial point at once.

Reclining in her cushioned chair, Hua Yaoyue said casually, "He's a veteran Nascent Soul True Lord. I've only just formed my Nascent Soul. How could I possibly beat him?"

"Just say that, and he'll let you go."

Hua Yaoyue plainly did not want to say more. Ji Yuan could hardly press her, so he nodded, then excitedly asked about something else.

"Master, you formed your Nascent Soul! You're a Nascent Soul ancestor now too!"

Ji Yuan's eyes shone as he spoke.

A Nascent Soul cultivator... Someone like that could uphold an entire immortal sect.

Across the whole Cangluo Continent, they could walk wherever they pleased.

Ji Yuan could not help recalling how Jiang Hong had suspected he was the disciple of a Nascent Soul cultivator. Ji Yuan had denied it inwardly at the time. Who would have thought Jiang Hong would be proven right the moment he returned?

"What's that phrase you always use?"

Perhaps because her Nascent Soul Formation had succeeded, Hua Yaoyue did seem much happier. She was even talking more.

"That would be 'a lucky fluke.'"

"For your disciple, it was a lucky fluke. For you, Master, it was only natural—the stream flowing into its channel."

Flattering words rolled effortlessly off Ji Yuan's tongue.

"Enough. It was only Nascent Soul Formation. Hardly a momentous event."

After she said that, the delight in Hua Yaoyue's eyes faded, and her former composure returned.

Had anyone else said it, Ji Yuan would have thought they were showing off.

But coming from Hua Yaoyue, he believed her. She truly did not consider Nascent Soul Formation a great matter.

For one thing, her cultivation in her previous life might have been higher.

For another, forming a Nascent Soul