Purple Mansion True Persons enjoyed long lives and possessed vast experience, having encountered countless people and affairs. Earning even a single word of praise from them was no easy feat.
"With looks like those, he really ought to cultivate 'Grace and Bearing'..."
Tai Fu Wei was also quite familiar with Rain Xiang Mountain's Dao Lineage, and offered that observation.
His words struck a chord with Tai Pei'er. Her Dao Lineage was an enduring sore spot in her heart. In truth, she had long since reached Qi Refining Peak, yet deliberately suppressed her cultivation because she did not want to follow the path of "Rare Earth."
Rare Earth preserves one's nature; metal springs from the soil. Yi Wood nourishes life; the four seasons sustain peace.
Strictly speaking, the Rare Earth path was by no means weak. It was even a fairly formidable Dao Lineage. What troubled her—and indeed the entire Tai clan—was that the lineage went no further. Her family possessed only this one cultivation method that led directly to the Purple Mansion.
Her family had cultivated this path for generations, and she herself had done so in her previous life. Yet precisely because she had cultivated it before, she did not want to do so again.
Since the [Dream-Traveling Immortal-Returning Pillow] sent me back, it must want me to seize my Destiny, turn my fortune around, and change my fate! And the first opportunity lies right before me.
Tai Pei'er clenched her fists, her emotions surging as she gazed at the water mirror.
In her memories, Jiang Yang had not cultivated "Grace and Bearing." She did not know exactly what he had cultivated, only that it was a path of Wood Virtue, reportedly so ancient that very few people even recognized it.
*The blessed land of Clear Isle Mountain will