"I think... Fellow Daoist Xiao has no need to join the Fu family at all!" Cai Zhuoxia said without hesitation. "Shopkeeper Fu wants you to join the Fu family for no more than having you study talisman-making and serve as a talisman maker for the Fu family. But your surname is not Fu. Even if you joined the Fu family, you could only refine ordinary yellow talismans. I fear they would never let you practice their high-grade yellow talismans!"
"Besides, what you need now is cultivation techniques. As long as you have the foundational techniques, this so-called talisman-making art is merely a petty path!"
"Even if your talisman-making skills became superb and you later became one of the Fu family's so-called guest elder, they absolutely would not teach you a complete set of cultivation techniques. You would still only be a somewhat more advanced talisman maker of the Fu family."
"To be honest, Fellow Daoist, I once considered asking you to join my Cai family as well. But... Fellow Daoist Xiao's frightening cultivation speed, as well as... your other divine abilities, made me feel that you would surely be buried if you stayed with my Cai family, so I never dared to speak of it! If Fellow Daoist Xiao goes to the Fu family, you might as well go to my Cai family instead. At the very least, my Cai family would not shortchange you in terms of cultivation techniques!"
Hearing Cai Zhuoxia's frank words, Xiao Hua suddenly understood. Cai Zhuoxia had kept inviting him to the Cai family, then changed her mind before he set out alone—so there had always been hints of such meanings behind it all!
"Of course... if the Fu family truly has some spirit talismans or the like, and Fellow Daoist Xiao feels that you