The next day, Pan Long came to Guangling City and paid the Wu Family a visit.
This time, the visit left him somewhat disappointed. Faced with Pan Long, who had gone from "suspected reincarnation of an Immortal or Buddha" to having outright "recovered the power of an Immortal or Buddha," the Wu Family members acted so humble they practically wanted to lie flat on the ground while answering him. Their abject manner made him uncomfortable.
Nor did he meet any of his acquaintances in the Wu Family this time.
Ever since returning from the Southern Sea, the Innate Masters of Qionghua Pavilion had more or less entered seclusion together. Pan Long had later given them pills that could help purify and separate their True Qi, speeding the process further.
Only a little over a year had passed since then. For Innate Masters in seclusion, that was hardly any time at all.
Today, for instance, Pan Long saw that every one of them was meditating in seclusion, gradually bringing their True Qi into balance before slowly separating it.
This was the most important painstaking work an Innate Master undertook. Spending thirty or fifty years on it was perfectly common.
Why did the Martial World generally believe that one had to reach the Innate Realm by around thirty at the latest to stand a chance of becoming a True Person?
Because this painstaking step of separating True Qi took far too long...
Pan Long had no wish to disturb the people of Qionghua Pavilion. He simply left them a brief note to show he had visited, then took his leave.
Not long afterward, "White Tiger Star, master of Yun Province," visited Evergreen Temple outside the city and saw his disciple Zheng Shuang, who was still striving to break through to the Innate