After talking with him for a while, Jiang Che realized that Li Qiubai was a treasure trove!
Delighted to find such rich quarry, Jiang Che gradually steered their conversation toward cultivation methods.
Li Qiubai still recognized at a glance that Jiang Che practiced the Upper Azure Expounding Heaven Method.
"This is a foundational method of our Azure Mystic, unavailable without the endorsement of the Four Peaks. Junior Brother, with such insight at your age-did you receive the method from Jingxiao Peak or Jingchi Peak? And which elder taught it to you?"
Jiang Che's heart skipped a beat.
He was certain that everything he had said had circled around the principles of cultivation, without revealing so much as half a name.
Recognizing Upper Azure Smoke Clouds or Azurefall Wind Dew would have been nothing unusual. Both were Embryonic Breath Methods that Azure Mystic disciples could learn fairly easily.
Yet this Senior Brother Li had discerned his deeper origins from the imagery of just "cloud seas" and "wind currents."
That was not something broad learning and a powerful memory alone could accomplish, unless Li Qiubai also practiced the Upper Azure Expounding Heaven Method.
But that did not seem to be the case.
Then he must truly understand cultivation at its very source.
Still, Jiang Che absolutely did not dare answer that question lightly.
Who had headed Jingxiao Peak twenty-one years ago, and who had taught its methods-he knew none of it. Making things up would be courting death.
So he merely smiled and said nothing.
Li Qiubai studied him for a moment, then suddenly chuckled and waved a hand. "That was presumptuous of me. Everyone has their own opportunities when it comes to receiving a method, and their own taboos as well. I shouldn't have asked. Please don't take offense, Junior Brother."