Mortal To Immortal (Book 1)
MTI 039 - Pair Candidate

Meirong and Yutian's gaze led to a relaxed-looking Feng Xian despite his name being mentioned in Houyi's story.

"Why are you staring at me?" feng Xian asked while raising his next eyebrow.

"Senior Feng, you never told us about this one." Meirong said.

"First, you don't ask. Second, does it matter? Given your unusual condition, what would or could you do even if I told you about it?" Feng Xian asked casually.

Meirong and Yutian were silent for quite a while. They realized it was wrong not to ask. Important or not, is not the main thing to think about now. And for sure, there was nothing they could do because everything had already happened and was long gone.

"Then why did Senior come to the battlefield back then?"

"Simply because I was traveling at the time. War will disturb the peace of my journey. Besides that..." Feng Xian put on a serious face, "I'm fed up with the war, despite being completely uninvolved or affected by it."

'What an unexpected answer from Senior Feng.' Meirong, Yutian, and Houyi had one thought in their minds.

"Senior, I think there's another reason that you're intervening, right?" guess Meirong, "Tell me like I know you, but staying with you for a few years makes me understand your nature a little bit. You're not like those who don't care about the outside world..."

Feng Xian laughed loosely for quite a while, making the three people with him bewildered. After his laughter subsided, Feng Xian put on a flat face.

"I hate war because I love peace and quiet..."

"Before the three old men disappeared, war was rare and chaos could still be contained..."

"After they disappeared, began to arise and often there was a medium to large scale war..."

"Every major war takes place in the Green Forest Country. How insolent you are and they have made the Green Forest Country a battlefield..."

"Nearly anyone knew, Xi Lei the Western Lightning was a person who cared for the Green Forest Country, his homeland, let alone Chen Long the Southern Dragon...

"I don't really care about the outside world, but that doesn't mean that I'm completely willing and have no limits on patience..."

"Tell you guys, I appeared on the battlefield and intervened was a surprise, but it was better than the appearance of Xi Lei and Chen Long..."

"I can assure you that if they intervene, at least each side will lose more than half of its strength. Or the worst part is, those no-brain sects are just names..."

Feng Xian said in a cold tone then ended with a cynical laugh, making the three people look down in fear and goosebumps.

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After being silent for quite a while, Houyi resumed his story.

As expected, the position of the Star Fire Palace was no longer the same. To his surprise, a few months after the great war ended, the sect switched its previously neutral stream to white. Currently left the Northern Ice Fortress and the other two sects that became the great power of the neutral flow.

"So, there are now Five Pillars and Three Kings..." Yutian nodded slowly.

"The Fire King is now the Pillar of Fire, is that it?" sahut Meirong's.

No one dared to declare war again and there had been no large-scale war since the appearance of Feng Xian, although it was later widely known that he was closing himself off from the outside world.

The action of Feng Xian was so sharp and not a few who considered themselves as heroes, especially the small and medium sects in the Green Forest Country, because these sects are always affected by the great wars that occur.

Another shocking news from Houyi was that the world of cultivators entered its golden era again.

This era was marked by the emergence of many talented cultivators from large sects and the opportunity to form the Sky Foundation which was very important for their practice journey in the next hundreds of years.

"The current generation is called the greatest golden era generation because almost all sects have aspiring Celestial Foundation cultivators."

"Ah, so... Brother Bing is lucky to have such a talented daughter. Ice element spirit roots were extremely rare. After you, the Northern Ice Fortress again has a cultivator with the same talent," Yutian said.

Houyi laughed softly, he and his daughter were born with ice elemental pure spirit roots. Houyi was also a bit of a cultivator who was a generation with Meirong and Yutian who managed to form the Sky Foundation when entering the Foundation Realm.

"Isn't Xiao Han like that too? Senior Feng and the two of you also got talented disciples. I wonder what the level of practice is because I can't read it..."

"Han'er is still in the Basic Realm, but he has already reached level fifteen."

Houyi coughed softly at Meirong's words. Even his daughter alone was still at the thirteenth level of the Basic Realm.

'The three of you really got very talented students.'

Yao Han and Yunzi were called closer. As Yunzi stood before him, Houyi exclaimed in excitement as he felt the Qi begin to be stored in Yunzi's body and soon his second son was a little more entering the first level of the Basic Realm.

"Dad, Han-gege is really good. He taught me patiently."

Houyi nodded in agreement, but Yunzi's next sentence made the four adults laugh.

"Dad, let's take Han-gege to the sect, I want her to be sister's partner..."

Yao Han smiled thinly while enduring the embarrassment, let alone Feng Xian laughing in satisfaction. He had never seen his teacher that much while laughing.

"Xiao Han, what do you think? You must have heard about my daughter from Yunzi, right? Take it easy, I can see you're a good boy. I'd appreciate if you guys had a relationship.

"Sorry, Uncle Bing. I don't mean to refuse, but I haven't thought about getting into a relationship with the opposite sex."

"Alright, I'm not forcing you, but you should remember that at least you already have a potential partner now, so in the future you won't have to bother looking anymore." Houyi laughed again.

Houyi then took out a sizable cloth pouch, a thick book, and two jade slips.

The pouch contained many spirit stones, the thick book was a best practice manual that the Houyi sect had and one of the jade slips contained about all ice element magic.

"The other "jade slip contains my memories of my daughter's face. Perhaps after looking at it, you want to rush to my sect to meet him," teased Houyi while playing both of his eyebrows up and down.

Yao Han felt it was excessive and intended to just take out a jade slip containing ice elemental magic, but Houyi forced Yao Han to take it all.

Feng Xian also obtained a gift in the form of spirit stones and without hesitation immediately stored the gift into the space ring.

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