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Tong Su was speechless.

Yue Yuan was dumbfounded.

Xuan Yan Danzu wiped his face.

Why are you still fixated on the term "in-laws"?

Are you that vengeful?!

"Fellow Daoist, please forgive me. I was rash and I am truly sorry."

Xuan Yan Danzu chuckled awkwardly and apologized, finally understanding the reason behind the man's subtle hostility towards him earlier.

Who the hell would have thought that he and the girl in the red dress were actually a couple?

He is at least a Nascent Soul cultivator, and his age is at least a thousand years old.

The girl had just advanced to the Golden Core stage, and judging from her bone age, she was not even twenty years old!

Not to mention, the girl secluded herself for three years before successfully advancing and emerging from seclusion.

Before she went into seclusion, she was at most fifteen or sixteen years old, with a Foundation Establishment cultivation level. If this male cultivator was with her at that time—

What a shameless lecherous old man who preys on young women!

The fact that Xuan Yan Dan Zu refrained from uttering a single curse like, "How dare you make your move so early? Are you trying to raise me? You're the one who's a heartless beast," already demonstrates the remarkable composure and cultivation of Xuan Yan Dan Zu.

He looked at his eldest apprentice with a wronged expression: Tell me, can you guess that they are a couple?

Yue Yuan chuckled coldly, refusing to acknowledge his master.

Please, you're the only one who didn't notice, okay?

However, on the other hand, Yue Yuan suddenly felt a little envious of the thrill of publicly displaying affection and making all the single people around him green with envy.

Although he has always been single, it's actually because he chooses not to look for a partner; it's not that he can't find one.

Yue Yuan was very popular among the female cultivators in the Loose Cultivator City.

He was handsome and dashing, with a gentle and refined demeanor. As the eldest disciple of the Pill Ancestor and a Nascent Soul Dao Lord himself, he possessed extraordinary cultivation, making him a typical male cultivator who would attract the attention of girls.

Moreover, his master always dragged him out to lure junior brothers and sisters into the sect by selling his male charm. Yue Yuan wondered if his master would stop doing such things if he had a Daoist partner.

That's settled then. Once he's done with this, he'll find a girlfriend too!

Xuan Yan Dan Zu offered a dry apology and then invited Tong Su and Tian Xuan Zi to sit in the Alchemy Pavilion. Tong Su nodded in agreement, and on the way, she and Xuan Yan Dan Zu began to talk about alchemy.

"What? You've only just started learning alchemy? Oh dear, what a waste of your talent!"

Xuan Yan Dan Zu stamped his foot in frustration: "Seriously, come to the Alchemy Pavilion. Since you already have a master, I won't force you to become a disciple, but I can take you as a student and will definitely pass on all my alchemy skills to you!"

In the world of cultivation, teachers and masters are different.

A monk can have multiple teachers, but can only have one master.

A teacher is one who imparts knowledge, instructs in skills, and resolves doubts.

Anyone who has taught you, whether it's pointing out martial arts techniques, swordplay, formations, alchemy, weapon crafting, or beast taming, or even just a casual instruction, can be called a teacher.

The master, once a teacher, is a father for life. He not only guides cultivation but also teaches etiquette, morality, and how to conduct oneself in the world. His name is recorded in the lineage's genealogy, and the ethics are established. From then on, one is a member of the master's lineage.

Just like back then, when Tian Xuanzi picked up the young Bai Tong and brought her back to the mountain, he could have taken Bai Tong as his disciple, but he didn't. Instead, he took her as a disciple on behalf of his master, registering her under the name of his master who had passed away hundreds of years ago, and making her his junior sister.

Although Tian Xuanzi's teaching of Bai Tong was no different from that of a master, the established ethical lineage meant that a junior sister was a junior sister, belonging to the same generation.

Therefore, dual cultivation and forming a Daoist couple are all in accordance with ethical rules, and no one can say it's wrong.