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Under Li Xiaoya's persistent questioning, Zhang Hong finally revealed where the cultivation method had come from. It was a secret method passed down through her lineage. But when he asked about her lineage itself, she refused to reveal so much as a word, saying only that she would tell him when the time was right. Li Xiaoya had no choice but to stop asking.
There was another matter that put Li Xiaoya's mind at ease. Since they were both cultivators, they had considerable reservations about having children as mortals did. Fortunately, Zhang Hong only needed to temporarily seal her ability to conceive. In fact, many cultivators were generally unwilling to have offspring. They would only decide to have children once their cultivation could advance no further, or after they had reached a very high level. That was why cultivators several hundred years old could often be seen with children only seven or eight years old. For one thing, they wanted descendants to carry on their bloodline; for another, they could pass down the spells of their branch that way. This was the main means by which cultivation lineages perpetuated themselves, and could also be called one of the reasons such lineages formed.
There were also cultivators with relatively shallow cultivation who sought female partners for dual cultivation so they could advance more quickly. When they could progress no further, they chose to live as ordinary people, had children, and gradually faded out of the Cultivation World.
Time flew like a shuttle. Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong continued their dual cultivation in the sealed chamber while trying to find a way to extract the Fire Dragon Sword, but they never succeeded. Three years passed, and when Zhang Hong and