Because this concerned the sect's production of Foundation Establishment Pills.
Shi Yutong dared not delay. As soon as she returned to the city, she went to the hall where her parents cultivated, intending to report everything to them.
An astonishing concentration of spiritual qi suffused the silvery-white hall.
Shi Yutong spoke softly, while two figures sat cross-legged before her, listening in silence.
After a while, Shi Yutong finished her account and said helplessly, "That is Fellow Daoist Li Ping's request. I didn't know how to handle it, so I had no choice but to come back and ask your opinion."
After hearing her account, True Person Mu Yun frowned. "Borrow a third-tier spiritual vein to attempt Core Formation? Tong'er, have you met that younger sister of Li Ping's? Do you know her background?"
Shi Yutong slowly shook her head. "All I know is that, like Li Ping, she's a cultivator from the Western Wasteland. Her aptitude should be excellent, too. She's younger than me, but her cultivation is higher."
"Younger than you, yet her cultivation is higher?" True Person Qian Xue beside him could not help looking surprised.
Her daughter possessed a variant spiritual root and had consumed large quantities of rare spirit herbs throughout her cultivation, yet she was still behind a cultivator younger than herself.
As far as Qian Xue could see, there were only two possibilities.
First, that female cultivator had aptitude similar to Tong'er's but came from a prestigious sect, enjoying more resources during her cultivation than Qian Xue and her husband, two Core Formation cultivators, could provide.
Second, that female cultivator had better aptitude than Tong'er, which allowed her to cultivate faster.
Tong'er possessed a variant spiritual root. True Person Qian Xue knew perfectly well what having better aptitude than her implied.
That female cultivator