Inheriting A Divine Cultivation Clan At The Start, All My Juniors Are Empresses

A thick sense of déjà vu of a Dragon Slayer finally turning into an evil dragon.

There was nothing he could do about it. He was just a wage slave in all this. On the very last day, a girl named Wan Qishang finally showed up. Her talent was Seventh-Grade Talent, which looked pretty good. She wasn’t very old, about twenty-one or twenty-two. Her face was a bit thin, but she liked to smile; when she smiled, she looked very pure, even a little timid.

"Is this okay?" Yuchi reached out his hand.

"Okay..." Wan Qishang answered softly. "And, my lord, you don’t need to do it yourself. I’ll do it."

"Mm."

"Then like this, is it okay?"

"A bit higher."

"Okay."

"Is it okay like this?"

"It’s fine, I can see it."

Yuchi quickly checked the girl’s wrist. There was indeed a small mole there, so this should be her. Honestly, before seeing the three characters for "Wan Qishang," he couldn’t remember at all. But once he saw the name, the memory came back in an instant: twenty-one or twenty-two years old, Seventh-Grade Talent, Foundation Establishment Stage Ninth Layer—this level of strength could be called brutal.

Xun Xian had been stuck at Foundation Establishment Stage Ninth Layer for many years; it really wasn’t that easy to increase one’s cultivation.

"Hello, I should have everything settled on my end." Wan Qishang was worried Yuchi might forget, so she reminded him, "My lord, I’m Wan Qishang."

"It’s fine, I’ve got you down."

Yuchi nodded. As he picked up the brush to write, he took another look at her from head to toe. There was a hint of anxiety in her eyes. Even though she liked to smile and looked very pure, that anxiety couldn’t be hidden. Why was she this nervous? Wasn’t everything already arranged?

Yuchi couldn’t help asking, "Miss Wan Qi, you don’t look like someone from the Celestial Craft Workshop."

Wan Qishang froze for a moment, then nodded. "I’m really not. I’m a disciple of a small sect."

Yuchi said, "Oh? So how did you get picked for this?"

There weren’t many people around right now. He figured if he casually asked something like this, the Celestial Craft Workshop wouldn’t make a fuss. Mostly he was just curious why this girl was so panicked. From his perspective, this was all just a play anyway. Everyone knew their own script—so what was there to be afraid of?

They were all just taking money to do a job. Or was she worried that her acting wasn’t good enough?

If it were anyone else asking, Wan Qishang wouldn’t have answered. This was a secret between her and the Celestial Craft Workshop, and it was also tied to a lot of big shots in the State Capital. If this got out, things would get very serious. But now Yuchi had actually asked this question.

"So why is he asking this? As someone from the Celestial Craft Workshop, does he not know about my arrangements with them? How is that possible... They’re the ones who came to recruit me." Wan Qishang was puzzled, but faced with a Celestial Craft Workshop man like Yuchi asking this, she still had to answer.

After thinking a bit, she said, "My lord, my talent is indeed quite good, but I never wanted to join a sect and become some sect’s disciple. And precisely because my talent is good, it’s basically impossible for me to survive in the State Capital as just some random person."

Yuchi nodded to himself, thinking: A man is innocent, but harboring a jade makes him guilty—this is more or less what that means.

Wan Qishang had no idea what Yuchi was thinking. She also didn’t know what he actually looked like; he was wearing a mask, and no one could tell what kind of face was behind it.

She continued:

"To avoid being hunted by Cultivators and ending up dead, I came to the Celestial Craft Workshop. I heard they can offer us protection, can keep people like me—who have talent but don’t want to join any sect—safe. So that’s what I did."

"Not joining a sect has its perks. It keeps you from being ’polluted.’ But there are downsides too—you lack a sect’s supply of Elixirs and you lack some Cultivation Techniques. You have to slowly scrape everything together on your own. Fortunately, this is the State Capital, and it’s not hard to find places to get Elixirs. But my current cultivation is already Foundation Establishment Stage Ninth Layer, and if I want to break through Foundation Establishment and enter the Core Formation Stage, I need a lot more resources."

"So when I learned about the Celestial Craft Workshop’s combat invitation, I came to join the competition."

"They also acknowledged my Foundation Establishment Stage Ninth Layer cultivation. After all, compared to sect disciples, we Loose Cultivators need to learn a lot more combat techniques."

Wan Qishang had brought up Loose Cultivators.

Before meeting her, Yuchi’s understanding of Cultivators was all sect-based. After all, in Ascension Gate there was even Qingzhu, who had an Eighth-Grade Talent and was fought over by sects until she was left homeless. That was how it went: if a low-level Cultivator had excellent talent, then they’d be forced into a sect.

Otherwise, that talented Cultivator would be killed.

He hadn’t expected the Celestial Craft Workshop to actually protect this kind of Loose Cultivator. From that angle, the Celestial Craft Workshop really had done something decent—giving these talented but sect-averse Loose Cultivators a chance. "People without sects," so to speak. Not bad. And in sparring matches, they could even make use of these Loose Cultivators.