Life's Crossroads: How Should One Choose? Seeking the Bone Tempering Method, Master Duan Chenzhou's Bearing!

Ji Xiu left the Lin Residence with a heart full of worries.

Lin Ruxue had offered far too much.

But he had only met Lin Ruyue once. To speak of any affection between them was impossible.

A principal wife.

That was someone meant to accompany him for life, not someone he could simply pick at will.

Since he had set foot upon the path of a martial man, the one Ji Xiu ultimately chose would certainly be someone who astonished him—someone who could even become his "Dao companion."

But.

Faced with a choice that could alter his "future."

How was he supposed to decide?

He traveled against the wind, making his way back toward the Fire Kiln with downcast eyes.

In the end, he still gave no definite answer.

He did not know what sort of colossal entity the Little Five Decays Sword Sect was.

But.

He understood prefecture city "household registration."

Under Great Xuan's rules, county households were county households, prefecture households were prefecture households. Ordinary people did not even have the right to leave their native place.

Martial men had the right to travel across prefectures and counties, but unless one was a Qi Refining Expert, one would eventually have to put down roots somewhere.

Everyone knew that people in the prefecture looked down on those from poor backwaters. It was reality. The Five Hundred Li Mountain Road was even more of a mountain hollow.

Unless one's martial attainments reached Skin Refinement, though, no matter how much the trades within the prefecture despised "stinking outsiders," they would still offer decent treatment. After all, strength reigned supreme.

But an ordinary Sinew Tempering martial man—

His usual martial resources might not even be enough, much less enough to settle down, register a household, and buy a home.

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