"Forget it, I'd better ask!" Xiao Hua said with a bitter smile. "Since I've already asked so much, a few more stupid questions won't matter."
Once Xiao Hua had finished voicing the doubts in his heart, it was Fu Zhiwen's turn to be astonished. Some of the earlier common knowledge could be explained by Xiao Hua being an overseas cultivator who had not set foot on the continent for a long time and thus knew little. But this matter of Qi Stones... was simply too inconceivable.
"Cough, cough..." Xiao Hua said with a smile. "Young Master Fu, this Xiao has always cultivated alone. All cultivation techniques and spirit pills were supplied by myself, so I truly didn't know about these things..."
"It's nothing, it's nothing!" Fu Zhiwen hurriedly waved his hand. "To know is to know; not to know is not to know. Fellow Daoist Xiao asks when he does not know—truly open and aboveboard. I cannot compare!"
Fu Zhiwen then gave a simple explanation. Contrary to Xiao Hua's expectations, Qi Stones also contained Vast Righteous Qi. However, from what Fu Zhiwen knew, its content was somewhat inferior to the Primordial Qi used in Daoist cultivation! Of course, Confucian cultivators also had methods to draw Vast Righteous Qi from Qi Stones. Yet ordinary Confucian cultivators did not use such methods. In their view, Vast Righteous Qi was living, spirited Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi. Only Vast Righteous Qi drawn from the flowing world between Heaven and Earth, from places dense with human habitation, was of the finest quality. Thus, Qi Stones were used for refining imperial artifacts and arranging Qi formations.
"So that's how it is!" Xiao Hua suddenly understood. Linking it to what he had seen with his Eye of Delusion Breaking, weren't there many kinds of Heaven and