Liang Dahu
[So, you hurriedly asked Liang Dahu which domain this was.]
[Unfortunately, Dahu was just a commoner, and he had only heard of the name of the Cangyun Sect.]
[He had no idea how many domains existed in the Jiuxuan Realm.]
[Thus, you could only temporarily abandon confirming which domain you had arrived in.]
[In the days that followed, you stayed at Liang Dahu's house.]
[Of course, you didn't stay there for free, as you would go out every few days, and every time you returned, you brought back a lot of prey.]
[This made Dahu and his sister, Ye Xiaoqing, feel that they had taken advantage of you.]
[In truth, you stayed because you wanted to help Dahu and the others, who had shown you kindness, to improve their lives.]
[On the other hand, it was because Shen Wutian had extracted a significant amount of blood and part of your soul power, leaving you heavily injured.]
[At this time, you could only exert the strength of someone in the Foundation Establishment stage.]
[With Dahu and his family, you could at least ensure your safety and slowly recover your strength.]
[Once you ventured far away, you weren't certain what dangers might await you.]
[After all, you were unfamiliar with this place.]
[You didn't know which areas might be perilous.]
[You decided to focus on recovering your strength and making plans, as the power you could currently wield was far too weak.]
[Two years passed in the blink of an eye.]
[In the fifty-fifth year, Dahu limped back home.]
[He knelt directly before you and begged you to save Ye Xiaoqing.]
[After several years of living together, Dahu and the others had long since realized you were not an ordinary person.]
[At this moment, with Ye Xiaoqing in danger, Dahu could only turn to you for help.]
[You frowned slightly upon seeing Dahu's condition. You didn't want to get involved in too many matters; you just wanted to restore your cultivation in peace.]
[However, you still asked Dahu what had happened.]
[You thought that if the matter wasn't too serious, you should help, as you had lived under his roof for so long.]
[Dahu didn't dare to hide anything and told you everything in detail.]
[It turned out Ye Xiaoqing had been captured by a group of gangsters.]
[When you learned the gangsters were just ordinary people, you felt relieved and agreed to help.]
[However, when you followed Dahu to confront the gangsters, Ye Xiaoqing was nowhere to be found.]
[After interrogating them, you learned that Ye Xiaoqing had been taken away by a female cultivator not long after Dahu had left.]
[Apparently, Ye Xiaoqing possessed the talent to cultivate immortality.]
[Upon hearing this, you weren't surprised at all. You had long since known Ye Xiaoqing had the talent to cultivate immortality.]
[Although your Insight Eyes couldn't discern the specific talents of others,]
[After practicing for so long, you had learned to judge whether someone had the talent for cultivation based on their affinity with spiritual energy.]
[After all, people with spiritual roots were naturally favored by spiritual energy, which tended to gather around them.]
[Originally, you had planned to leave some immortal cultivation methods for Ye Xiaoqing when you eventually left, but now it seemed unnecessary.]
[Afterward, your life returned to peace, but Dahu became increasingly silent.]
[Having spent so much time with them, you already knew that Dahu and Xiaoqing weren't actually siblings. They were simply orphans who had grown up together.]
[You could also tell that Dahu harbored special feelings for Xiaoqing.]
[Now that Ye Xiaoqing had entered the immortal sect, Dahu was undoubtedly distressed.]
[Perhaps he was happy for Ye Xiaoqing, but it was more likely that he felt inferior.]
[A few days later, you approached Dahu and asked if he was willing to practice martial arts, use it to prove his Dao, and follow in Ye Xiaoqing's footsteps.]
[This decision was one you made after much thought.]
[You felt that if Dahu hadn't saved you when you were unconscious and left you in the wild, you might have been eaten by a wild beast.]
[Teaching him martial arts and giving him the opportunity to catch up to his sweetheart was your way of repaying his kindness.]
[Hearing there was a chance to catch up to Xiaoqing, Dahu didn't hesitate and immediately asked to become your disciple.]
[You didn't agree to take him as a disciple but expressed your willingness to teach him.]
[From then on, in addition to training daily to restore your cultivation, you also taught Dahu the War God Art.]
[It must be said that Dahu's talent for martial arts was indeed mediocre.]
[But, fortunately, he was able to endure hardships. He completed every physical training task you assigned and even practiced on his own.]
[The reason for his diligence was simple: you told him that he didn't have the talent for immortal cultivation, and that practicing martial arts would be even harder. If he wanted to catch up with immortals, he had to work harder than anyone else.]
[Ten years passed in the blink of an eye.]
[In the sixty-third year, your cultivation had only recovered to the peak of the Golden Core stage.]
[The damage caused by Shen Wutian's dark techniques had been too severe.]
[You couldn't help but complain about the one-time talent surrogate doll. It had already perished, yet it still left you with such serious injuries. You thought it deserved a bad review.]
[Over the past ten years, Dahu had also progressed in martial arts and had broken through to the Condensation Stage, equivalent to the Foundation Establishment stage in immortal cultivation.]
[This progress was much faster than your initial improvement.]
[However, this wasn't because Dahu had greater talent than you.]
[It was because the Southern Region, where you currently resided, was more conducive to cultivation—whether it was martial arts or immortal cultivation.]
[For someone with Dahu's mediocre talent, your guidance, along with his daily consumption of monster meat for sustenance, had also contributed to his progress.]
[After all, the flesh and blood of monsters were valuable resources for martial cultivation.]
[This reminded you of your past simulations. When you had practiced martial arts in the Southern Region, you had no access to monster meat. Resources like these had always been devoured by ordinary wild beasts.]
[The rest of your progress could only be painstakingly ground out using the nameless skills in the first chapter of the War God Art.]
[This realization further reinforced your belief that resources were of utmost importance in cultivation, be it martial or immortal.]
[Of course, you knew Dahu's rapid progress wasn't solely due to the resources you provided. It was also because of his unyielding determination.]
[Over the years, you had observed Dahu sleeping only two to three hours a day, dedicating all his remaining time to martial arts training.]
[One day, Dahu approached you and told you he wanted to go to the Cangyun Sect to find Xiaoqing.]
[Over the years, Ye Xiaoqing had sent letters back home. Both you and Dahu already knew she had been taken in by the Cangyun Sect.]
[You looked at Dahu, smiled, and nodded. You didn't stop him.]
[Instead, you gave him dozens of teleportation jade plates for emergencies.]
[These teleportation jade plates were crafted by you in reality but had never been used. Now, you handed over nearly half of them to Dahu.]
[Of course, you modified the jade plates to activate with martial energy so Dahu could use them.]
[Dahu left, leaving you as the sole occupant of the slightly dilapidated cabin.]
[Time flew by, and decades passed unnoticed.]
[In the seventy-ninth year, your cultivation finally reached the early stage of the Nascent Soul transformation.]
[That same year, you turned 100 years old, activating your late bloomer talent, which doubled your cultivation speed.]