Chapter 675: Child
Immortal Realm at twenty-three years old!
This is shocking to hear!
He Yunfang originally thought Xiang Beifei must be at least several hundred years old, having cultivated in the Great Desolate Realm for centuries, then journeying all the way to the Edge Corner Airspace.
Even if one were to say Xiang Beifei was older than him, he would find that normal.
Yet, who would have expected Xiang Beifei to be only twenty-three years old!
Compared to his own age of over two thousand, Xiang Beifei's youth is somewhat terrifying!
"The talent of the Human Race, is it truly this remarkable?"
He Qing was obviously shocked as well. She thought achieving mid-stage Immortal Realm in five hundred years was an extraordinarily rare talent, but compared to this young Human, she felt insignificant.
"It's not really, I'm just an exception." Xiang Beifei shrugged.
"But you're twenty-three!" He Yunfang emphasized.
"Thanks for the reminder."
He Yunfang: "..."
He Qing: "..."
The father and daughter exchanged glances, their expressions taking a long time to recover.
"Could there be a mistake?" He Qing asked.
"Aren't you still holding my hand? You can keep checking." Xiang Beifei replied.
Only then did He Qing realize that she was still holding Xiang Beifei's hand. She was so shocked earlier that she held on tightly. With Xiang Beifei's comment, her expression changed, and she quickly let go of his hand.
"Incredible! Unbelievable!"
He Yunfang murmured, still having never heard of any young prodigy from any race entering the Immortal Realm within a hundred years.
"Child prodigy! A born prodigy!" He Yunfang exclaimed excitedly.
"Child prodigy?"
Xiang Beifei touched his forehead.
At twenty-three, do I still qualify as a prodigy?
But thinking about it, according to the knowledge in Edge Corner Airspace, five hundred is considered youthful, so at twenty-three, am I just a child?
Xiang Beifei hadn't mentioned his cultivation time, fearing if he told them he started at eighteen, they might have their perceptions completely upended.
Honestly, after leaving Jiuzhou, Xiang Beifei stopped keeping track of his age. The Outer Desolate Realm was vast, and much of his time was spent on the road, with considerable time dedicated to cultivation.
Starting cultivation when he awakened the system at eighteen, it's only been five years now.
Reaching the Immortal Realm in five years.
Well, it's just average.
"This way, please."
He Qing quickly resumed composure and arranged a guest room for Xiang Beifei. Though the space was limited and the room small, it had all the necessary furnishings.
"Young Master Xiang, you can stay here for a while. If you need anything, just let me know, and I'll have someone take care of it for you."
He Yunfang's view of Xiang Beifei changed; he had always addressed him as a fellow Dao friend, thinking they were of similar age, but now he referred to him as a young friend.
This is a young man of extraordinary potential!
"Alright, thank you." Xiang Beifei nodded in acknowledgment.
Only then did He Yunfang and his daughter leave, closing the door behind them.
Even after they left, Xiang Beifei could still hear the father-daughter discussing something.
...
"See, father's judgment of people is still quite good."
"What does this have to do with judgment? He is so young, in Edge Corner Airspace, he's like a child who can't even truss a chicken."
"Precisely because he's akin to a child, we cannot let anything happen to him. Could you bear watching a clueless child stumble around Edge Corner Airspace getting into trouble?"
"But he's of the Human Race, remember that."
"Even if he's Human, he's still a Human child. What could a child possibly understand?
To reach the Immortal Realm by twenty-three, he must have been in closed-door cultivation for over twenty years, with no time to interact with the outside world. Now he's relying on his Immortal Realm strength to sneak out to Edge Corner Airspace to play. His family's elders are likely frantically searching for him.
He should be like you back then; at twenty-three, you spent twenty years cultivating, and your mind was like that of a three-year-old child. Do you not remember?
Regardless, he's still a child. If something happens to such a child, what a loss that would be! You need to take care of him and teach him some positive and uplifting principles, so he doesn't stray."
...
Xiang Beifei listened to their conversation, both amused and exasperated.
In He Yunfang's eyes, had he really become a child who had been in seclusion for twenty-three years and then sneaked out to play cluelessly?
He stopped listening to their words, opting to lie on the bed to contemplate the matters of Common Valley and Wufeng.
Is Wufeng truly his grandfather?
A ray of light flashed, and the broken sword appeared in Xiang Beifei's hand.
This was a stone sword, also the weapon of Xiang Beifei's grandfather. Over three thousand years ago in Hanxia, Xiang Beifei had seen how his grandfather wielded Wufeng.
Back then, Wufeng was not broken.
But it broke later on.
Xiang Beifei received the broken Wufeng from his amnesiac grandfather.
In Jiuzhou, where everyone possesses a system interface, his grandfather's system interface was a snowflake. Yet, from his snowflake system interface sprang two items.
One was a mysterious brick, known as the Five Pieces of Stone.
The other was Wufeng.
However, at that time, Wufeng had broken, leaving only a foot in length, and was always used by his grandfather as a kitchen knife, left in the kitchen for cutting and cooking.
According to He Yunfang, Wufeng was involved in the turmoil in Common Valley about thirty years ago.