An Zhengzheng left and returned to Siyue Sect to continue cultivating her skills.

Now that she is fifteen years old and has reached the eighth level of Qi cultivation, she can apply to study another skill. When Master Suotang gave her the talisman, she had already made a verbal agreement with him.

An Zhengzheng kept his promise and visited Master Suotang, the cultivator of the Dan Sect.

When Master Suotang received the news, he couldn't stop smiling.

He also gave her a gift upon meeting her: an excellent alchemy furnace. Unlike the ruthless people of the Heartless Path, who are devoid of emotions and love and have no understanding of human relationships, he was not one of them.

"Zhengzheng, now that you've become my disciple, you'll have to put in more effort in the future." He smiled, putting on the airs of a master.

An Zhengzheng served him tea and said respectfully and solemnly, "Disciple understands."

She was Master Suotang's only closed-door disciple.

Master Suotang's standards for accepting disciples were the same as those of his master, Master Huaisheng; the requirements were extremely high, and there had only been one such disciple in a thousand years.

An Zhengzheng felt very honored.

"Well... Zhengzheng, I heard you went to see Zhou Xu, how was it?" Master Suotang's ears perked up, looking very gossipy.

An Zhengzheng said with a black line on her forehead, "...I've explained it to him, he should be able to strengthen his resolve."

If he sees An Zhengzheng again in the illusion, he will probably remember An Zhengzheng's rejection, and maybe the unease will make him leave the illusion.

Master Suotang shook his head.

"I have never seen a person without feelings fall in love. I heard that he has even developed feelings."

He stroked the whisk in his hand and then stroked his black and white beard, seemingly deep in thought.

An Zhengzheng paused, feeling the weight of the alchemy furnace in her arms. After a moment's thought, she replied, "The world is full of wonders."

Who would have thought she would travel through time to this place?

Master Suotang scrutinized her expression, somewhat worried: "You truly have no feelings for him?"

"If we're talking about romantic love, I'm afraid I don't have any for anyone." An Zhengzheng's mind was very clear.

Master Suotang found it amusing that she seemed to be faking her words.

A male cultivator who was born without the root of emotion fell in love and developed the root of emotion.

A female cultivator who was born with a deeper emotional capacity than anyone else, yet refused to get involved in love.

This is truly an upheaval.

Seeing that he was probing, An Zhengzheng also took the opportunity to inquire about Jian Lin.

"...I wonder how that ancestor ascended to immortality back then?"

When Master Suotang heard someone mention Jian Lin, he paused for a moment, his already somewhat aged face showing a hint of surprise.

After a long silence, he said, "Why are you asking her... She can't really be called an ancestor. When that girl came from the mortal realm, I was already at the Golden Core stage."

Seemingly lost in memories, Suo Tang Zhenren appeared somewhat dazed.

"When the gods were changing hands, a traitor infiltrated the divine race. The elders of the eight major immortal cultivation sects worked together to open the heaven-reaching formation. Jian Lin sacrificed herself to maintain the stability of the Heavenly Dao."

An Zhengzheng was surprised: "Wasn't it said that Senior Sister Jian Lin was a child cultivator from the mortal realm?"

How could an ordinary person possess such abilities?

Master Suotang said, "Her fate is special. Because a god in the Heavenly Realm committed dereliction of duty, she, who had accumulated great merit, has to bear the sins of a hundred lifetimes."

A hundred lifetimes of sins... An Zhengzheng dared not imagine the scene of a person suffering hundreds of times in the human world.

"Back then, when Master Qingxu and Demon Lord Xiao Junyan were trapped, it was Jian Lin who sent them out and disappeared from the Heavenly Dao ever since... Actually, it is said that she ascended to heaven, but whether that is true or not is unknown."

As the person directly involved, Suo Tang Zhenren knew very well.

An Zhengzheng asked incredulously, "So, the last female cultivator to ascend to godhood..."

Was the whole story a lie?

Is there any hope in everything she's done?

An Zhengzheng lowered her eyes.

Seemingly knowing what An Zhengzheng was thinking, Master Suotang comforted her: "Master Qingxu lost his memory after returning, but Demon Lord Xiao Junyan did not. Perhaps he knows the truth."

An Zhengzheng: "Master, are you serious? I'm going to see the Demon Lord?"

Although she had heard that Demon Lord Xiao Junyan was not a tyrant, she was still not very willing to get close to him, as he was a demon who had lived for tens of thousands of years.

Master Suotang said, "Do you know your Senior Sister Wenyu?"

An Zhengzheng nodded.

Master Suotang: "...Xiao Junyan's daughter."

An Zhengzheng: ? ? ?

She spoke with some difficulty, "Master, are you serious?" This made it much easier to understand Senior Sister Wen Yu's strange behavior; that unlucky girl who transmigrated into a book with a system…

Master Suotang nodded like a chick pecking at rice, showing no sign of being a stranger to his new disciple.

"Xiao Junyan couldn't take care of his daughter, so he secretly entrusted her to Qingxu Zhenren. Besides the Demon Lord, only you, me, Qingxu Zhenren, and... oh, and Kongyu Zhenren of the Medicine Sect knew about this."

He said to An Zhengzheng with great interest, "Among us, I'm the only one who has taken on a disciple, so you're one of us."

An Zhengzheng was very skeptical. Could this gossipy old man, who was like a playful old man, really keep a secret?

Seeing the questioning look in his new disciple's eyes, Master Suotang became anxious: "I really didn't lie to you. Your cultivation level is low, so you don't know that I set up a barrier to block out the secrets of heaven. No one but you and me can hear these words."

An Zhengzheng believed it this time.

Master Suotang said proudly, "If you tell anyone, you'll suffer the consequences... This proves I wasn't lying to you."

"???" His master is quite clever.

An Zhengzheng exchanged spiritual energy with him, and when she returned to her own mountain, she received a long list of books from him.

She then set off with renewed vigor to collect books; she had so much to do now.

"elder sister."

When An Yirou arrived at the place where she had arranged to meet An Zhengzheng, An Zhengzheng had already been waiting for a long time.

The two sisters hadn't seen each other for six months.

In the cultivation world, years are counted starting from ten years. My parents just sent me a notification via jade slip, so they didn't think much of it.

An Zhengzheng was the same; after all, she lost all sense of time after her enlightenment.

"Sister, what grade are you in now?"

"You've reached level eight in Qi Refining, and now you're at level two? That's really impressive."

An Yirou can't compare to An Zhengzheng, but in this increasingly worldly cultivation world, it's already quite remarkable for a woman to have achieved this level of cultivation.

The two sisters exchanged pleasantries for a while before An Zhengzheng finally inquired about the business she was handling.

"Luckily, my sister left a plan early on, and I followed it exactly. Zhang Guo'er and the others were contacted by my sister, and the shop was also registered under her name..."

An Yirou was personally taught by An Zhengzheng, and according to the instructions in the emergency section of the plan, she would go with An Mao to handle matters related to the Hundred Women's Pavilion at the end of each month.

She was already quite adept at it.

An Zhengzheng asked about the situation in detail, and An Yirou answered all her questions.

Everything is proceeding smoothly.

An Zhengzheng became even busier after cultivating more Dan Sect techniques, and she forgot all about Zhou Xu.

Her daily life is very fulfilling.

Until one day, rumors started circulating about her.