You've only been cultivating for a few years, and you're already talking about cultivating

Lei Leilei then said, "Big guy, I'm leaving too, going back to the Five Thunder Sect."

Qi Fei nodded: "Have a safe journey."

Lei Leilei didn't move. He stood there, looked at Qi Fei for a while, and then suddenly spoke again.

"Big Guy, are you really not going to visit the Five Thunder Sect? We have many senior and junior sisters in the Five Thunder Sect, and we can introduce them to you."

Qi Fei shook his head: "I want to go to the south of the South China Sea to take a look at the sword cultivator sects."

"That's such a pity!"

Lei Leilei said this with a smile on her face.

But his eyes have changed.

A flash of lightning suddenly appeared in his eyes, so bright that Qi Fei's eyelids twitched instinctively.

At the same time, countless bolts of lightning exploded on both the level of "name" and "reality".

Lightning surged in from all directions, dense and numerous, like a tide, a tsunami, a vast expanse of silver waves, threatening to engulf Qi Fei.

Like a net that has been woven for a long time, it has finally come to an end at this moment.

But the surge of lightning stopped abruptly three feet in front of Qi Fei.

A sword's cry suddenly rang out.

The sword light rang out from the gap between "name" and "reality," from the place where all the lightning converged.

The sword light neither slashed, cut, nor stabbed. It was like a wave thrown into a torrent, gently stirring the thunderous tide, causing the tide to change direction.

Countless bolts of lightning seemed to be twisted by the neck by an invisible giant hand, their direction abruptly changed from surging towards Qi Fei to surging towards Lei Lei Lei.

A wave of lightning returned along the same route, without even slowing down.

Lei Leilei's eyes lit up, revealing a look of surprise that said, "You really didn't disappoint me."

With a flick of his sleeve, five cauldrons the size of walnuts flew out, each a distinct color: red, black, blue, white, and yellow. They spun rapidly in the air, forming a halo of light.

The halo blocked the recoiling thunder tide with a loud "boom," lightning flashed everywhere, and electric snakes danced wildly. The thunder tide crashed into the Five Thunder Cauldron and was absorbed into it.

Lei Leilei retrieved the Five Thunder Cauldrons, and the five cauldrons spun around in his palm a few times.

He looked at Qi Fei and said, "Big guy, you were prepared all along."

Qi Fei said, "You are different from Chan Kong. Your cultivation is higher than his, you have more ideas than him, and you're even a bit abnormal. Of course, I have to be wary of you."

He had known for a long time that Lei Leilei was a bit strange, so he had always been on guard against him.

Lei Leilei paused for a moment, then laughed.

That smile was different from before; it was a kind of charm that emanated from the very core of her being, carrying a hint of allure, a touch of smugness, and an indescribable allure.

With that laughter, his appearance began to change.

First, the silhouette. The shoulders are narrower, the waist is slimmer, and the jawline has softened from sharp to gentle. Then, the facial features.

The brow peaks have lowered, the brow tails have raised, the bridge of the nose is still high, but the nostrils have narrowed a bit, and the outline of the lips has softened from a stern look.

Finally, there's the demeanor. That "buddy" vibe receded like the tide, replaced by a natural, unpretentious charm that seeped from the very core of her being.

Lei Leilei has disappeared.

Standing in front of Qi Fei was a woman.

A very, very beautiful woman. Her skin was very white, as white as the finest mutton fat jade, and it shimmered with a faint, warm light in the sunlight.

Her eyes were large, with slightly upturned corners, and her pupils were dark brown, like two bottomless pools of water.

Her lips were neither too thick nor too thin, and their color was a natural, light pink. She wore no makeup, yet they were more beautiful than any lips that had been made up.

She spoke, and her voice was no longer Lei Leilei's rough male voice, but a soft and charming one.

"Big guy," she said, a slight, enigmatic smile playing on her lips, "Do I look pretty?"

"As expected," Qi Fei's tone remained unchanged, "you're a pervert. You actually transformed into a woman."

Zhongli Xingyao's smile froze for a moment, then she exploded like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"I'm not a pervert!"

Her voice rose several octaves, and her alluring charm vanished, replaced by a sense of indignation, as if she had been wronged and her face turned red with anger.

"I am a woman! My name is Zhongli Xingyao! I am a direct disciple of the Five Thunder Sect!"

After she finished speaking, her chest heaved a few times, making her appear even larger. She was quite angry at Qi Fei's word "pervert."

"Oh—" Qi Fei drawled out. From this reaction, it could be basically determined that Lei Leilei was indeed a woman, not a man who had turned into a woman.

"Okay. You should go back now."

Zhongli Xingyao took a deep breath and adjusted her mindset. Her voice was soft: "Big guy, you're very strong. Why don't you come back to the Five Thunder Sect with me? I can have your children, lots and lots of children."

Qi Fei looked at the woman in front of him.

Not long ago, they were good buddies, arm in arm, saying "we're all men," but in the blink of an eye, she turned into a charming and alluring woman, saying things like "I'll have your baby."

He shook his head.

"My ambitions lie elsewhere. I want to see the pinnacle of the Immortal Path. I want to see where immortals come from."

There have always been people cultivating immortality, cultivating for thousands or tens of thousands of years, generation after generation, one after another.

But no one has ever asked, where do immortals come from? Who defined "immortals"?

Who paved that "path to immortality" that has been trampled underfoot by countless people?

Where does it lead?

At the end of the road, is there the real answer, or another, higher wall?

Zhongli Xingyao looked into Qi Fei's eyes, her tone carrying a final, desperate plea: "Our Five Thunder Sect also has many top-tier cultivation techniques that can help Big Guy reach the pinnacle of the Immortal Path."

Qi Fei shook his head.

"If I'm not mistaken," he said, "your Five Thunder Sect only has one Dao-proving method left. There are probably very few people left in the sect."

Zhongli Xingyao's expression changed; her charming expression turned into surprise.

"Um..." she said, with a puzzled look, as if asking, "How did you know?" "You knew?"

Qi Fei explained, "We can probably guess that."

"First, you came to Yue Kingdom alone to seek the Five Cauldrons Sect's treasured artifact, which is very risky. But there are other people in the sect, and they will all come to help each other."

"Secondly, the method of enlightenment you gave me, I have carefully analyzed, and it should be an incomplete version."

"Third, you keep saying that there are many senior and junior sisters in the Five Thunder Sect, but you actually mention specific individuals rather than making general statements. This actually shows that there are very few people in the Five Thunder Sect."

"Fourth, you just exchanged all the Chamber of Commerce's thank-you gifts for gold. This shows that the Five Thunder Sect is very short of money."

Many currencies circulate in the cultivation world, and gold is one of them.