In the days that followed, Pan Long felt as though he had returned to the years before he ventured into the Martial World.
He ate, slept, read, and practiced martial arts, strolling through town in his spare time. The only difference was that no one his age came to visit.
For one thing, they barely knew one another. For another, the gap in their abilities was too great.
Strictly speaking, the Nine-Turn Mysterious Art had no divisions of "Mortal, Innate, True Person, and Immortals and Buddhas." But judging by his cultivation, he was already an Innate Master—and a formidable one who had mastered half of the four alterations: Body, Food, Breath, and Soul.
Ordinarily, unless someone was a genius receiving the full support of an illustrious family like the Di Lineage, even the most gifted person would have to reach their twenties before entering the Innate Realm. Mastering Breath Mystery and Body Alteration would usually have to wait until around thirty.
But Pan Long was only nineteen.
In the entire Ren Family, the "promising young talent" closest to him was Ren Nanfei, his nephew by family seniority. Ren Nanfei was twenty-six and had only just entered the Innate Realm after the New Year.
That alone made him an extraordinary talent, one who had stirred the entire Ren Family. Alongside several other young experts of the Qionglai Sect, he had even earned the title "Four Elegants of Qionglai."
On the second day after Pan Long returned to the Ren Family, this young talent, one of the Four Elegants of Qionglai, came to visit. They exchanged insights on refining True Qi and nourishing the body.
They had a pleasant conversation. But after Ren Nanfei returned, he told others, "I truly was a frog at the bottom of a well, ignorant of how