Zhang Xiaohua could only talk to himself. The figure of light seemed to ignore him, continuing unhurriedly, "Fellow Daoist, take a close look at these four portraits. If your cultivation had been a little deeper, or if you were a direct disciple of the Three Sects, you might have seen them in your own sect long ago. Alas, I had forgotten how vast heaven and earth are. The true essence sustaining this projection of my Primordial Spirit is nearly exhausted. I do not know how long it has been since I fell. Cultivation inheritances have blossomed and borne fruit—how could there be only the Three Sects, or even merely four sects, in this world?"
"Cultivation?" Zhang Xiaohua froze again. What is cultivation? Does it have something to do with the Immortal Path?
"Well, no matter what, as long as you are neither an Incense-Passing Cult disciple nor a Misty Sect disciple, that is enough!"
Damn... Zhang Xiaohua found it utterly absurd. If it had been some other sect, like the Divine Blade Sect mentioned by this man—a sect he had never even heard of—he would not have thought much of it. He was not their disciple to begin with. But... but he happened to have close ties with both the Misty Sect and the Incense-Passing Cult. Take the Misty Sect first: everything he had acquired on the Immortal Path was connected to the Misty Sect. Even the "Carefree Heart Sutra" had been found in the Misty Sect's Library Pavilion. To say he had nothing to do with the Misty Sect—Zhang Xiaohua himself would not believe that. Then there was the Incense-Passing Cult. Though his Internal Energy Cultivation Method was not from the Incense-Passing Cult, his beloved was a Mocu Palace disciple, and he himself was a Mocu Palace Protector disciple.