Li Xiaoya naturally had no idea what consequences his words had caused. He had not noticed Ailishan's expression and merely thought she was still embarrassed about their earlier misunderstanding. Naturally, he knew nothing of what was going through her mind...
Actually, Ailishan could hardly be blamed for this.
Generally speaking, thanks to the Greater Star Realm's abundant cultivation environment, many female cultivators... or rather, not just female cultivators, but human cultivators in general, developed physically much faster than humans in the Human Realm. In the Upper Realm, they usually grew as tall as adults by twelve or thirteen and were already fully mature physically, meeting the ordinary worldly conditions for marriage and having children. However, what the Greater Star Realm valued most was not marriage and childbirth, but cultivating, attaining the Dao, and becoming immortal. Thus, although their bodies were mature, this was precisely a crucial time for cultivation. Not only did the elders of ordinary cultivator lineages forbid their disciples from indulging in relations between men and women, they even forbade them from losing their virginity lest it affect their cultivation. The cultivators themselves also put cultivation first, so where would they find the inclination to think about romance? After all, the Greater Star Realm was different. The notion of cultivation permeated the heart and soul of every cultivator. One could say that possessing an immortal root in the Greater Star Realm yet failing to cultivate diligently was practically a crime.
Even ordinary mortals in the Greater Star Realm placed their main emphasis on practicing martial arts and training. The same principle applied to them.
As long as a cultivator had decent aptitude, reaching the Core Condensation Stage or even the Golden Core Stage after ten or twenty years of cultivation was not difficult. By this point, male and