Unsheathed

Meanwhile, inside the immortal residence...

Pang Lanxi had no time to worry about anything else, deciding that Xingzi, his childhood sweetheart, was the most important. "Alright, go on," he said to Chen Ping'an. "However, the condition is that I have to find your advice reasonable. Otherwise, I won't go to my great-grandfather to ask for a scolding either."

Chen Ping'an raised his hands and cupped his fists first, gesturing to the powerful immortals standing outside to not take things too far. He then lightly placed a hand on the military book and gently ran his palm across it. It was only after leaving Malicious Ghost Valley that he had discovered that the books meticulously curated and collected by the Demon Hunting Immortal of Sheep Intestine Palace were largely well-maintained and in exceptional condition. These were valuable copies or even lone copies that had already existed in the world for a thousand years.

This greatly improved Chen Ping'an's mood, and he started to offer advice to the young man in front of him, saying with a quiet chuckle, "Lanxi, do you think it's difficult for you to advance to the Golden Core Tier and become a so-called terrestrial immortal in the eyes of mortal people?"

"I'm not bragging or anything, Chen Ping'an, but advancing to the Golden Core Tier will be easy, and advancing to the Nascent Tier won't be difficult either," Pang Lanxi replied sincerely.

Chen Ping'an nodded in response, knowing that Pang Lanxi was simply speaking the truth. Having stayed at this immortal residence of the Flax Robe Sect for a few days, and having chatted with this young man as well as a few direct disciples of the sect including the Golden Core Tier Yang Lin, Chen Ping'an was roughly aware of Pang Lanxi's standing in the Flax Robe Sect already. It was extremely likely that he was being raised as a future sect leader. At the very least, he was going to wield great power in the Flax Robe Sect.

Moreover, Pang Lanxi possessed outstanding talent, had a pure heart, and also treated others kindly. As such, his innate aptitude and his connate personality were all extremely compatible with the Flax Robe Sect. This was the mysterious nature of the Great Dao. If Pang Lanxi were born in Bamboo Scroll Lake, then perhaps his achievements would be greatly limited if he remained the same as he was right now. This was because Bamboo Scroll Lake would continue to grind away at his personality, thereby dragging down his cultivation base and his ability to obtain fated opportunities.

However, it was a completely different story at the Flax Robe Sect's Wood Garment Mountain, where Pang Lanxi was like a fish in water. It was as if they were a match made in heaven. This was a case of different environments producing different kinds of people. As such, there were some cases where complaining about fate and other people wasn't completely unfounded. After all, there were indeed some people who were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Seeing Chen Ping'an's mind start to wander, Pang Lanxi couldn't help but interrupt and say, "Stop daydreaming, Chen Ping'an, there are one or two sets of mural replicas waving their hands at you. How can you drift off at a time like this?"

Chen Ping'an apologized and asked, "You're destined to become an immortal in the mountains who can enjoy a long lifespan, while Miss Xingzi is a mortal human from outside the mountains. Have you considered this before? Ordinary women will start to gray at forty, and they'll perhaps already be white-haired old ladies at the age of sixty. At that time, how will Miss Xingzi face you, someone who's perhaps still walking around with a youthful experience of just twenty years old?"

Pang Lanxi felt his heart tighten, and he murmured in response, "I can purposely adhere to nature and age like mortal humans, not freezing my appearance and also becoming a white-haired old man."

"You're wrong and wrong again," Chen Ping'an said with a shake of his head.