Hearing Yang Yuanliu call her name, Jiang Pu respectfully returned the salute, then slowly walked onto the high platform and took her place at his side.
"Wow! This sister is incredible! She actually became a Direct Disciple of the Technique Academy while still a mortal who had yet to enter the Dao!"
Hey, fellow Daoist, you didn't know? This daughter of the Jiang Clan had already entered the Dao and cultivated for some time before. She was even recognized by the Immortal Estate as a potential candidate for the Heaven's Pride Golden Ranking."
"Ah? That happened? Then why does she have no cultivation now?"
"Of course, there were other hidden circumstances. To make a long story short..."
Some children from the Central Region had also heard of Jiang Pu's past, and they began discussing it with the cultivators beside them.
When they heard that Jiang Pu's Qi flow had gone awry during a breakthrough, damaging her Qi Meridians and Dao foundation and causing her realm to fall, many of the children present were shocked and bewildered.
They simply could not understand how someone with such outstanding talent and comprehension could suffer an error so grave during cultivation in the Qi-Gathering realm that it caused her realm to drop.
Yet as the others continued their account, the confusion in their hearts gradually dissipated.
At the beginning of Jiang Pu's fall in realm years ago, she had told both her family and the Immortal Estate that she had been disturbed by some vicious evil soul entity, which was why such a misfortune had occurred.
But an Immortal Estate venerable had already examined her at the time and found no trace of evil arts running amok within her soul. Thus, everyone merely assumed that Jiang Pu was making excuses for her cultivation mistake.