"Jia Lan is back." Seeing Loran Hill return to the shrine, Granny Gro greeted her.

At that moment, she sat in the center of the shrine, quietly sensing the dragon veins beneath the vast earth. The afterglow of the setting sun streamed in through the shrine's main gate, tinting the lower half of her black shrine maiden's robe with a hint of warmth.

"I'm back." The girl walked with a slightly brisk pace, first went to the backyard, changed into clean and tidy shoes, and then walked out.

At this time, Loran Hill took off her usual black coat and wore a snow-white dress. Her satin-like hair was draped over her shoulders, which matched her beautiful and dreamy face, giving her a special charm.

"Is grandma free now?" Stepping on the wooden planks of the shrine, there were bursts of empty sounds under my feet.

"Yes, is there something wrong?" Granny Gro opened her eyes. She had almost finished her afternoon work.

"I want to know some things about the past." Loran Hill came over and knelt with Granny Gro, looking at the courtyard outside in the sunset.

"Oh, have you found anything interesting?" Granny Gro's voice was kind.

"Yeah." Loran Hill then went on to talk about the girl during the day.

After listening carefully, Granny Gro finally spoke.

"So she is Qingling's daughter. I didn't expect she has grown up so fast." She seemed to be sighing.

"What this child said is generally correct, but there are also some differences."

"Actually, I knew about Qingling's relationship with that boy." Granny Gro slowly recounted the past events.

"That boy was probably around eighteen or nineteen at the time. He grew up on the border of the dynasty. As he grew older, he began to develop some of the characteristics of the Youchi clan, such as fair skin with a slight bluish hue. Although his pupils appear black, they are actually a deep blue."

"Because of his different appearance, he felt uncomfortable living outside, so he moved from the border town to this valley in the sunset mountains."

"Compared to those children from ordinary families, he had studied outside and knew a lot, which soon attracted Qingling's attention and admiration. Qingling was also good-looking, so what happened next was a natural progression." Granny Gro said.

"There were actually more than just Qingling studying with me at the time. There were two others as well, so I didn't try to stop or care about Qingling's relationship at the time. I let it develop freely."

“It was only later that some changes occurred.”

"After Qingling got married, the other girl also developed feelings for herself and left for the outside world. The only remaining girl also died in an accident."

"From now on, I will be the only one supporting this shrine."

"I originally wanted to train a few more children to be my successors, but unfortunately, the world changed in the past few years. Even I had to start from scratch, and now I have only just returned to the fifth level. Let alone teaching others. So this matter has been put on hold."

Although Granny Gro spoke in a calm and composed manner, Loran Hill admired her calm and composed attitude.

Before the changes in the world, Granny Gro was a powerful priestess of the Dragon Sequence 8. Now she has fallen to the fifth level. It is conceivable that the difference is huge and most people cannot accept it at all.

At this moment, Loran Hill suddenly became curious about the follow-up of that period of change in the world.

"Why are those immortals who were once ranked ninth level unable to return to the peak of their strength in the new era? Some of them even make less progress than some young people."

"Haha, this." Granny Gro explained with a smile.

“Because everyone’s habits can’t be changed.”

"A lot of knowledge and ways of thinking are already deeply ingrained in our minds, like your handwriting, the way you speak, and even your personality."

"Things that used to be advantages are now hindering your ability to learn new things. Because according to the old understanding, current cultivation methods will inevitably lead to obsession, are wrong, and will lead to eternal damnation."

"Even if you gradually realize that this has changed, and reality has shifted, it's hard to correct these habitual thoughts and reactions. You need to constantly correct them, and if you don't check, you'll go astray."

"So, our generation is slowly falling behind the times." Granny Gro replied slowly.

"Instead, the ones with the greatest advantage are the young people, especially those who reach the fifth or sixth level at a young age."

"They are already very familiar with the cultivation of supernatural powers. Moreover, they have only recently learned what they learned, so they haven't formed a fixed mindset yet and can easily change their ways."

"Although I haven't been to the outside world for a long time, I can still roughly infer from the little information I've heard that most of the seventh-level geniuses who come to me now have similar backgrounds. They once reached the fifth or sixth level at a very young age, and after practicing again, they quickly caught up."

"Moreover, young people are flexible-minded, unconstrained, and more bold in innovation. This is probably why they quickly come to the fore." Granny Gro patiently explained the current situation of the world to Loran Hill.

The two of them talked quietly in the quiet shrine until the sunset in the distance completely fell and the two birds on the ridge of the shrine's eaves began to sing.

Chirp Chirp——(When will you cook?)

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The next day, morning.

Loran Hill came to the top of the valley again, but today waiting for her there was not only the little girl from yesterday, but also a woman in her thirties.

The woman wrapped her head with a black headscarf, but her face still looked somewhat similar to the little girl. The two should be mother and daughter.

"I'm sorry, Caiwei disturbed Lady Jialan yesterday." The woman first took the little girl's hand and bowed to the girl.

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