From the man, Su Jiu learned a few things. Although they were far removed from what they wanted to investigate, they still provided her with a useful lead.
When they first joined the Water Moon School, some had already been cultivators, while the others had been mortals.
The cultivators who joined the Water Moon School all had mottled spirit roots of low purity and an extremely poor affinity for spiritual qi. As such, they desperately needed this Immortal Pool Spring.
For many of them, the Qi Refining realm might be the furthest they could reach in their entire lives. The slightly better ones would stop at Foundation Establishment.
Yet even so, these disciples with poor aptitude were divided into several ranks.
The highest rank consisted of children between six and fifteen who had yet to undergo qi induction. Most had been brought back from mortal villages. As long as these children had spirit roots, they were all taken away, regardless of their roots' attributes.
The second group consisted of those who wanted to attach themselves to the Water Moon School and sent their children there to cultivate.
When the man reached this point, the first person Su Jiu thought of was the unconscious girl. She remembered that before she rescued her, several onlookers had said that the girl's parents seemed to have been residents of North City. Later, before anyone discovered what had happened to the girl, they had offended someone and been beaten to death.
Su Jiu had not thought much of it at the time. Looking back now, could something between the girl and the Water Moon School have left her in that state? To cut out the weeds by the roots, had they refused to spare even her parents...
For instance, had the girl inadvertently discovered some