Unlike Ting'er, who was determined to follow her father, Liu Fuqi and Liu Fuyan expressed no desire to go to the Southern Sea. Their Dao companions both came from distinguished backgrounds and would certainly be unwilling to marry into the Liu Household.
The three daughters' different choices also stemmed from their differing expectations of their father, Liu Changxu, and their own Dao companions.
His fifth daughter, Liu Futing, believed her father's future Dao Path held boundless promise. Her reason for persuading her Dao companion, Xu Yin, to marry into the Liu Household was to secure her father's full support for their cultivation.
Apart from a master at Golden Core Great Perfection, Xu Yin had no other backing. Born into an ordinary mortal family, he faced tremendous difficulty in advancing further. His master had many disciples, so the cultivation support he could offer Xu Yin was very limited.
But if he chose Liu Futing as his Dao companion and married into the Liu Household, he would gain the support of a Nascent Soul father-in-law, making his future Dao Path much smoother.
This was also an important reason why the handsome Xu Yin, who had no shortage of female cultivators pursuing him, had chosen Liu Futing as his Dao companion. Such cases were common in the Azure Cloud Sect.
Many handsome male cultivators from humble backgrounds ultimately chose female cultivators from well-established families as their Dao companions. In this respect, cultivators were even more pragmatic than mortals.
Liu Changxu naturally saw right through his three daughters' little calculations, but he understood them! He was very pleased with his future son-in-law Xu Yin's choice.
As a father, he hoped all his daughters would find good homes, but finding a suitable match was no easy matter.
A husband from a good family background? He