Mo Tiange heaved a long sigh and patted Nie Wushang's shoulder, speechless.
She knew Nie Wushang must have a sad story, but she didn't expect it to be like this.
The man who was supposed to be her father raised her, tortured her, and took revenge on her with his hatred for her mother.
She never saw her mother, and she didn't even have the child's admiration for her.
She lived for more than a hundred years without freedom, hope, or even thoughts.
What kind of life was that?
Mo Tiange found it hard to imagine.
If it was said that she once had a bit of ill feelings towards Nie Wushang, at this moment, it had already disappeared without a trace.
It wasn't because she sympathized with her, but because even if Nie Wushang made her unhappy, it wasn't from her heart.
She recalled Nie Wushang once said the reason she could advance so quickly was because Master Song Feng used Primordial Devil Aura to open up her meridians. This Primordial Devil Aura would flare up every once in a while, and when it flared up, she would wish she was dead.
Was this also one of the methods of torture?
"Will your Primordial Devil Aura flare up soon?"
Mo Tiange's concerned tone stunned Nie Wushang for a moment.
She said, "It hasn't flare up since I advanced to the middle stage of the Core Formation realm. I feel the spiritual aura during my advancement suppressed the Primordial Devil Aura in my meridians, so it probably won't flare up in the near future."
"That's good."
Nie Wushang looked at her, wanting to say something but hesitating.
Mo Tiange asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
Nie Wushang hesitated for a long time and finally asked, "Do you … think of me as a friend?"
Mo Tiange raised her eyebrows and asked with a smile, "Otherwise, why would I go with you?"
Nie Wushang was silent for a long time.
After a long time, Mo Tiange heard her sigh. "I thought … a proud son of heaven like you wouldn't put people like me in your eyes and wouldn't understand …"
So that's how I look in Nie Wushang's eyes?
Mo Tiange laughed and said, "How did you know I was a proud son of heaven from the beginning?"
Nie Wushang was stunned and said, "When I first saw you, you were only in the Foundation Building realm, but you were already Lord Daoist Jinghe's disciple. How could you not be?"
Mo Tiange sighed and said, "What about before I built my foundation?
I entered Xuanqing School when I was twenty years old. At that time, I was already in the tenth layer of the Aura Refining realm. "
"Twenty years old and already at the tenth layer of qi training. This kind of cultivation speed is considered outstanding among the elite disciples of the big sects."
"You're right," Mo Tiange said, "But at that time, I was just a trash with five wasted spiritual roots. I had to rely on taking medicine to cultivate."
She spoke very calmly, but Nie Wushang was astonished. "How could that be possible?
If you had such aptitude, how could Lord Daoist Jinghe have accepted you as his disciple? And how could you be so young … "
Mo Tiange chuckled and said, "My aptitude is abnormal. Before master accepted me as his disciple, everyone, including myself, thought I had a waste spiritual root."
"Oh …" Nie Wushang didn't delve too deeply into it. The cultivation world was very mysterious, and there were always a lot of strange things. Even though she was a Core Formation cultivator, she still couldn't completely understand them.
With this thought in mind, she asked, "If that's the case, how did you spend those twenty years?"
Mo Tiange looked down at her hands and slowly began to talk about her past. "I was born in the secular world. Before I was seven years old, I was just an ordinary village girl …"
She briefly recounted her experiences as a teenager and hid the parts that were inconvenient to tell others. By the time she finished, almost an hour had already passed.
After listening to her, Nie Wushang didn't say anything for a long time. No one knew what she was thinking.
After a while, she finally sighed and said, "No wonder … No wonder you're so different from those disciples from big cultivation groups. There are even some places that I feel are very familiar …"
Mo Tiange smiled. "I didn't expect that the one favored by the heavens in my eyes would also have this kind of experience."
Nie Wushang stared at her and said earnestly, "I really didn't expect it. I thought your life was smooth sailing …"
This kind of thinking wasn't strange. People who knew her identity and saw that she had an outstanding cultivation level at such a young age would most likely have this kind of thinking.
In fact, those years of wandering from place to place were only a few short years in her long life of cultivation. The longer she cultivated, the less it was worth mentioning.
However, the marks left on her life were much heavier than those several decades of smooth sailing.
In the past, she couldn't get anything, so now that she got something, she knew how to cherish it.
The important people in her life left one by one, so her heart gradually became stronger and she could calmly face those storms.
Compared to those truly favored by the heavens, she experienced more life and death, separation, loss, and injustice, so she could be more open-minded when facing worldly affairs.
"That's why I said that in places you can't see, others are also experiencing the same life as you and growing up, even if that person seems very annoying."
"Why do you look like that?" Mo Tiange touched her face.
"Why do you look like that?" Mo Tiange touched her face.
Nie Wushang sighed and looked up at the sky. "I really underestimated other cultivators. I always thought my experience was complicated and my understanding was different from others, but I never thought that other people's experience might be even more complicated."
Mo Tiange couldn't help but laugh. "I'm not as unlucky as you. Although I lost my parents when I was young, I didn't lack people who loved me."
"That's what you said, but I didn't think as clearly as you did."
Nie Wushang looked down at her hand. The injury on her left hand hadn't healed yet, and there were still black traces where the black water corroded.
She wrapped her wound again, clenched her fist, looked up and said, "After this matter is over, I've decided to travel around and experience the life of some ordinary cultivators.
What about you? Do you want to go with me? "
Mo Tiange pondered for a while then said, "Let's talk about it later. I can't decide right now."
She came to Yunzhong to travel, but she had a more important purpose. She could only be sure about this after she met Ling Yunhe.
Nie Wushang didn't feel disappointed. She said with a smile, "Then let's talk about it later. At the very least, before we return to Sky Snow City, we can still do things together, right?"
"Of course," Mo Tiange answered with a smile.
Nie Wushang seemed to be a trustworthy person with extraordinary strength, so it would be a pleasure to be her companion.
After the two of them finished talking, they asked a maid to inform City Lord Mei. In just a moment, City Lord Mei sent someone to invite them over.
"Little friends." City Lord Mei walked in with a smile in the same small hall where they first met.
Both Mo Tiange and Nie Wushang stood up and saluted. "City Lord Mei."
City Lord Mei smiled. With one hand clasped behind her back, she gestured for them to sit down.
This gesture was very mature, but he looked like a teenager and hadn't grown up yet, so it looked very uncoordinated.
City Lord Mei sat on the host's seat and ordered someone to serve tea. She then said with a smile, "I heard you two agreed to my request. I'm very happy!"
Mo Tiange raised her eyebrows. "I heard there are many Core Formation cultivators here. Why does City Lord Mei care so much about us?"
City Lord Mei looked at them then pointed at her own head and said with a smile, "Intuition."
"Intuition?" Nie Wushang was confused.
"Hehe." City Lord Mei's gaze fell on her. Her attitude was amiable. "Fellow Daoist Tiancan, as a Nascent Soul cultivator, you naturally have some wonderful divine abilities. It's like sensing fate."
Mo Tiange said with a smile, "I wonder what Lord Mei sensed?
Could it be that you sensed we could pass the test? "
"That's not it. Sensing isn't prophecy," City Lord Mei said with a smile.
"It's just that based on your words and actions, as well as my experience, I feel you two have a higher chance of passing the test this time."
A Nascent Soul cultivator's vision was extraordinary. With just a cursory glance, she could already see that Mo Tiange and Nie Wushang's strength wasn't ordinary and that their chances of passing the test were slightly higher than those cultivators with ordinary strength.
City Lord Mei's gaze swept over Mo Tiange and Nie Wushang before she said with a smile, "From what I can see, your cultivation levels are extraordinary, your spiritual treasures aren't bad, and you don't look very old. Presumably, you have a master, right?"
Although there was no lack of self-reliant and self-reliant examples in the cultivation world, having a master was certainly much easier than individual cultivators.
Most individual cultivators were low-level cultivators because their aptitudes were poor and Foundation-Building Pills were hard to come by. Very few of them could advance to the Foundation Building realm, and only one in ten thousand could form their Gold Core. Their chances were much lower than those of cultivation group disciples.
Because cultivation wasn't easy, individual cultivators mostly looked old and experienced, even if they looked young.
However, Mo Tiange and Nie Wushang weren't like this. Whether it was their appearance or their bearing, they didn't look like individual cultivators at first glance.
Upon hearing this question, Mo Tiange only showed a faint smile and said, "Junior indeed has a master, but it's inconvenient for me to say it. I hope Senior can forgive me."
Nie Wushang said, "I also have a master."
City Lord Mei smiled and said, "It seems you two young friends have extraordinary identities. I wasn't wrong about you."
He paused for a moment then continued, "Since that's the case, I'll arrange for you two to enter the secret area to train together."
"City Lord Mei," Mo Tiange asked, "can we enter the trial at any time?"
City Lord Mei shook her head and said, "According to reason, the trial can be opened at any time.
However, I won't hide this from you two. After discovering this secret area, I gathered the strength of all the Core Formation cultivators in Descending Stars City and laid a restriction to ensure that this place won't be discovered by outsiders for a short period of time.
Opening this restriction isn't an easy matter, so I wanted to wait until the number of Core Formation cultivators reached a certain number before opening it. "
City Lord Mei's words were reasonable, so Mo Tiange and Nie Wushang both nodded.
"Then, when will City Lord Mei decide to open it?"
City Lord Mei said, "If you two young friends decide to join, there will be more than ten people. It can be opened in two or three days."
"Alright. If you decide when to open it, I'll have to ask City Lord Mei to inform me."
"That's natural."
City Lord Mei stood up and said, "In a moment, I'll have Elder Liang explain in detail the matters you need to pay attention to. I hope you two can prepare well in the next few days."
"Of course."
Since the master seemed to want to see them off, Mo Tiange and Nie Wushang both stood up. "That being the case, we'll take our leave first."
City Lord Mei smiled and said, "Young friends, please do as you wish."
The two of them cupped their hands and bowed to City Lord Mei again then left the small hall. Under the guidance of a maid, they returned to Fenghe Courtyard.
When they entered Fenghe Courtyard and confirmed that no one could spy on them, Nie Wushang impatiently asked, "Do you think there's a problem?"
"It's hard to say."
Mo Tiange wrinkled her brows. "More than ten Core Formation cultivators … It's too chaotic … He also reminded us that although this trial doesn't require our lives, other people can mount sneak attacks on us. I think we have to be careful with every step we take."