Jiang Pu's words made Sheng Jiaoyang's expression shift slightly. After two breaths of silence, he said nothing more, rose, bade her farewell, and left.
He was now also a cultivator at the Second Level of Qi Gathering. Earlier, within Jiang Pu's Immortal Estate, Sheng Jiaoyang's divine sense had clearly detected the spiritual qi that had not yet fully dispersed.
Together with the faint spiritual power fluctuations around Jiang Pu, it showed that before his arrival, she had still been working to draw qi into her body and rebuild her cultivation realm.
This alone showed that the previous cultivation tragedy had not crushed her. On the contrary, it had made her heart in pursuit of the Dao even more steadfast.
Sheng Jiaoyang did not deny that Jiang Pu had once possessed exceptional talent, nor did he doubt that she could now successfully rebuild her qi estate.
But even if she truly achieved that, she would merely have crossed the threshold of the Dao path. A long road still lay ahead.
And because her Dao foundation and Qi Meridians had been damaged, the upper limit of Jiang Pu's Dao path was already far below what it had once been. At most, she was only slightly better than someone of mediocre aptitude.
If the Jiang Clan still intended to devote great effort to nurturing her, it might not be impossible for her to ultimately contend for the status of a titled True Person.
But in her current state, no matter how regretful the Jiang Clan might feel, they could not possibly invest precious cultivation resources in a cultivator whose Dao path peaked only at the Spiritual Connection Realm.
"Some things cannot be changed by willpower alone. And those things you said before..."
After leaving Jiang Pu's Immortal Estate, Sheng Jiaoyang found himself recalling