Li Yan had no idea that his little cleverness could never deceive someone who had lived for several hundred years.
At that moment, his Seventh Senior Brother was teaching him basic knowledge. Lin Daqiao did not know whether it was because he had had no suitable person to talk to here over the past few years, or because he was especially responsible, but he conscientiously carried out the task Li Wuyi had given him and poured out everything he knew about common matters in the cultivation world. This approach allowed Li Yan to learn many things he had never known.
First, he explained the cultivation world's divisions of realms, spiritual root attributes, Divine Sense, and other basics Li Yan already knew. Naturally, Li Yan could not act as though he knew them, or would his earlier words not have given the game away? Right now, he was a blank sheet of paper. Yet after listening carefully, he gained a renewed understanding and learned quite a bit of new knowledge as well.
Lin Daqiao went through them one by one, from major realm divisions to minor matters such as fasting during cultivation, leaving Li Yan utterly absorbed.
For instance, once realms were divided into ranks, the respectful forms of address between cultivators also differed. This was not like the Mortal Realm, where whoever was older was considered the elder. Among cultivators, everything was determined solely by strength; being one major realm higher made one an elder. An eighty-year-old Qi Condensation Realm disciple who encountered a twenty-year-old Foundation Establishment Realm youth still had to respectfully call him "Senior." If the two belonged to the same sect, he would have to call him "Martial Uncle" or "Martial Elder Uncle." Otherwise, the other party might raise a hand and destroy him. Such a strict