Within Great Bright Peak, everything was as it had always been.
It was as though time had stopped here; nothing had changed.
Whenever he returned, he felt as if he had gone back to the old days.
His brothers and sisters were all here. Some cultivated diligently, while others loafed and cut corners.
Though they understood the importance of cultivation, some Princes and princesses still did not wish to endure hardship, greedy for the comfort before their eyes.
Chu Liezhao felt no contempt for them. Everyone made their own choices.
In the Jade Scenery Dynasty, princesses had it better. If Princes merely muddled along and waited for death, they would have hard days ahead.
Yet that too was their own choice.
Everyone had their own way of living, and no one else had the right to point fingers.
The greatest reason they slacked off was that cultivation progressed too slowly.
Unless one possessed peerless talent like Chu Liezhao, even those who cultivated diligently often measured their progress in years. No change could be seen in a month or two.
He arrived at Diwu Academy and found his Fifteenth Uncle, Chu Honglin.
Chu Honglin was basking in the sunlight, reclining in a long chair in the courtyard with a scroll in hand, completely absorbed.
Chu Liezhao sat down on the chair beside him. "Fifteenth Uncle."
Chu Honglin put down his book and smiled. "You haven't been back for quite some time."
"I was in secluded cultivation," Chu Liezhao said.
Chu Honglin smiled. "Not in secluded cultivation—you went off with your wife, didn't you? You certainly know how to enjoy yourself!"
Chu Liezhao and Li Miaotan had entered the Kunlun Cave Heaven of Jade Kunlun Palace together, hiding from the Yuan Zhen Dynasty's assassinations.
Though the news had been kept secret, it