Zheng Fa waved to Lady Xuanhua, and the two of them headed towards Zheng Fa's house, one following the other.
As they walked, Zheng Fa suddenly started talking about something:
"When I first joined, I met a fellow disciple surnamed Zhuang."
Lady Xuanhua looked puzzled but continued to listen quietly.
"He once asked me a question."
Back when Zheng Fa had just joined the Jiushan Sect, on his first visit to the Discussion Talisman Pavilion for lessons—Zhuang had treated him differently.
As time passed, he had long since stopped caring about it.
But he still remembered Zhuang's question.
"He asked me, when Spiritual Energy is abundant, most ordinary people can't cultivate and don't enjoy the power and convenience Spiritual Energy offers."
"But when the Spiritual Energy declines, it is mostly them who pay the price."
"So, he wondered... is Spiritual Energy, or should we say cultivators, the poison of the Xuanwei Realm?"
