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Facing such a deduction of karmic opportunity, Great Senior Brother also shook his head.

He considered himself to have exceptional talent in the Dao of Heavenly Secrets.

Yet back then, he had not calculated that he would share that layer of karmic opportunity with this Junior Brother in the past.

It seemed he was still not refined enough.

Master was situated in the Nine Heavens Dao Field, yet could isolate the influence of that time.

And saw this thread of affinity with Junior Brother.

It truly was indescribably wondrous.

"At the position of entering the Sect, it seems Master already knew of Junior Brother's extraordinariness back then..."

Qing Xuan could only guess thusly.

Back when he went to the Outer Sect Dao Academy to recruit disciples.

He had also faintly heard some rumors.

Knowing this was where a layer of affinity lay between the past Dao Academy and the current Dao Sect.

Matters of cultivation, talks of Karma, Master-disciple Karma, and Sect Karma were themselves a heavy layer of Karma.

These karmic affinities seemed to exist yet not exist; only after a section of Karma played out could the location of the karmic opportunity be clearly stated.

If it had been like that back then.

He probably would have been able to guess why Master agreed to go to the Outer Sect Dao Academy to recruit disciples.

"Spirit Plant Peak is also a good place. The path of cultivating spirit plants is also a way to mold one's temperament and nourish the mind and heart. Junior Brother has indeed found a good place."

Qing Xuan praised.

Lu Qing smiled and asked this Senior Brother: "Senior Brother, you have gone to Divination Peak, and your affairs are busy. Why not use your previous Puppet body?"

He inquired.

Qing Xuan immediately sighed, "Junior Brother, of course I did that. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to peacefully enter seclusion."

"But there are some matters on Divination Peak that require dealing with various peaks of other main lineages in the Sect. You know, in their eyes, almost none of the disciples born from our Sword Lineage are eloquent."

"If reasoning doesn't work, we can only resort to a spell battle. Furthermore, outside the Sect, the path of divining heavenly secrets—the Dao Seeking Immortal Sect is famous for this, and the people of their Sect especially love to come and challenge the disciples of various Dao Lineages..."

"Therefore, what makes being a peak Master troublesome for me is not those miscellaneous chores, but these spell battles and Dao discussions. Although spell battles have benefits, fighting every day is quite annoying."

Lu Qing was slightly stunned.

He hadn't expected that the Divination Peak where this Great Senior Brother resided had such a style.

Recalling his journey all the way here, situations where he had to resort to physical action were very few.

Reason with others?

He furrowed his brows and thought, it seemed he indeed rarely encountered such a situation.

Generally, what he encountered were hexagram reading hexes that triggered dangers and required Avoid Calamity.

Thinking like this, back in the days at the Dao Academy, hexagram reading hexes emerged endlessly, and they were basically related to the Demonic Path.

Although it was much better now, the level involved was also much higher.

Those recorded hidden enemies—Lu Qing temporarily did not have absolute Dao cultivation to suppress them completely.

Therefore, he also reminded himself in his heart that the Void Refinement realm was still not enough.

"I see."

He replied, "Senior Brother, the Dao discussion here is about to begin. Why not observe it together?"

He invited this Great Senior Brother to observe the Dao discussion together.

Although this Great Senior Brother's stated purpose of coming was not to discuss the Dao with him.

Yet Lu Qing also knew that any figure who was a prodigy would never be willing to retreat like this without a discussion.

It was just that this thought was merely his personal speculation.

The Dao Hearts and spiritual platforms of different prodigy figures were all different. The Dao they cultivated and their past cultivation experiences also shaped their respective unique Dao Hearts.

He could tell that this Great Senior Brother was truly broad-minded, and his Dao Heart was truly steady.

Qing Xuan was slightly stunned, then smiled and said, "Since Junior Brother invites me, I won't decline."

They were fellow apprentice brothers of the same Sect; there was no need to act coy or hesitant about what they wanted to say.

Lu Qing saying this was actually also a form of observing the Dao while discussing it.

It was just that the purpose was not to discuss the Dao, but to watch others discuss it, thereby gaining insights from the sidelines.

In the dim and ethereal void.

Sun Qidao had actually arrived here.

For an Dao Seeking expert to sit and guard here daily from a single Dao Lineage was already enough.

It was only previously, when the heavenly secrets were still unclear, that multiple Dao Seeking experts from various paths would gather.

But after capturing the flash of heavenly secrets.

Some figures took the lead to return behind their own Dao Lineages.

Preparing to borrow the supreme treasures suppressing the Sect within their Dao Lineages to once again deduce the fate of their own Dao Lineage and the heavenly secrets of their own Dao's fate.

Sun Qidao stroked his beard somewhat strangely and cast his gaze downward.

He saw Qing Xuan heading in a certain direction.

Although there were misty clouds and smoke here, which could shroud heavenly secrets.

However, since it was a member of his own Sect, that unique Sect aura could still be made out to some extent.

"How strange, could this kid Qing Xuan be looking for someone to discuss the Dao with?"

However, when he saw the other Profound Heaven disciple.

The amiable smile on Sun Qidao's face also became a bit strange.

"It seems he has also learned a thing or two. As expected of someone cultivating the Dao of Heavenly Secrets, such talent is not bad."

He praised Qing Xuan with a sigh of admiration.

Although this Sword Lineage Great Senior Brother did not participate in the Ten Great True Inheritances within the Profound Heaven Dao Sect, it wasn't because he lacked qualifications, but because his cultivation had reached the point where he directly promoted to become a great cultivator of a peak.

He was also a pillar-like figure within the Sect.

Naturally, he would not participate in the positions of the Ten Great True Inheritances where disciples and Sect members competed against each other in spell battles.

He originally thought that in their generation, this Sword Lineage Great Senior Brother was already leading the pack.

Little did he think, looking at it now, that might not necessarily be the case.

After all, regarding this disciple named Lu Qing.

For the Dao Sect to say they didn't value him would be false, and to say they had no worries would also be empty words.

In an era of heavenly changes, a time of variables.

Such a monstrous talent who surpassed others by starting later—they had never been able to deduce how things would turn out in the future.

They could only observe as they went.

"It is neither late-blooming nor astonishingly brilliant from the very beginning; rather, it's like a slow arrival, dripping water wearing through stone."

Sun Qidao stroked his beard, and upon seeing Lu Qing, a flood of memories surfaced in his Divine Sense.

That was back then at the Dao Academy when he and Junior Brother Li went together with an Incarnation.

At the Dao Academy's lecture on the Dao, this little disciple was not dazzlingly eye-catching back then, but thinking back now, the other party had already concealed his flaws and remained restrained at that time.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have steadily cultivated all the way to the present.

"Prudence comes first; being overly prudent doesn't quite look like a high-spirited prodigy."

Sun Qidao shook his head somewhat strangely, simply feeling that such a disposition seemed born specifically for cultivation.

"If kid Qing Xuan wants to discuss the Dao with his Junior Brother, I'm afraid it's hanging by a thread."

Discussing the Dao.

He was well aware that the Dao Lu Qing walked upon also carried the aura of the Dao of Heavenly Secrets.

Amidst the clouds and smoke.

Lu Qing felt a slight sensation, his gaze wanting to lift, but he quickly shifted it and did not look toward the dim and ethereal place of sensation.

"There is a trace of a familiar aura; it seems to be a Senior of Profound Heaven."

This trace of gaze was blocked by layers, but Lu Qing felt it in his heart; what his spiritual intuition sensed was what he observed.

Yet he still did not lift his gaze to exchange glances with that Senior.

He well knew that the powerhouse in white within the memories of that Dragon Senior—with just a single glance, it was as if they had truly come alive, traversing endless space-time and years, and seemingly crossing that apocalyptic doomsday wasteland.

Conducting a dialogue across the years with him.

This was undoubtedly extremely astonishing.

It also made Lu Qing try his best to overestimate to what extent these mighty powerhouses walking ahead could achieve.

Therefore, whenever his Divine Sense moved and his mind thought on ordinary days, it usually remained silently like meandering, flowing water, babbling along without stirring up monstrous waves.

To attract others' perceptions.

Amidst the clouds and smoke, Sun Qidao withdrew a wisp of his gaze.

A trace of complex emotion leaked from his eyes.

"Underestimated, underestimated."

Both appreciation and exclamation were expressed in this sentence.

With a single glance of Dao Seeking, the people of the world were still bustling about, still running around and toiling for cultivation and fortuitous encounters.

Born upon the earth, looking up to observe the heavens was merely something that happened occasionally.

Just as the heaven, earth, sun, and moon inherently existed.

When the glance of Dao Seeking fell, all living beings should remain completely unaware.

"Now, this old man is also feeling rather delighted."

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