"Trust is built on as, not words," Jason said calmly, his toeady. "Human nature is plex and ever-ging. People often adapt their behavior to suit their circumstances, usually putting themselves first. I've traveled enough to see it firsthand—believe me, the most dangerous creatures aren’t the beasts in the wild but humans themselves, especially in pces like this city."

  He paused, letting his words sink in. "When humans gain power or wealth, greed often follows. For many, it bees a huhat 't be satisfied, dragging them further into darkness until it es them entirely."

  Jason's gaze softened slightly as he addressed his listeners. "The fact that you’ve mao stay true to your paths is admirable, but not everyone is that strong. It's far easier to fall into temptation than to resist it. So here’s my advice: trust in yourself and guard your heart. The path of cultivation is long and isoting, and it's easy to be led astray by your own desires or doubts. In the end, strength is what truly matters—not honor, wealth, or fame. Those things are fleeting and often little more than distras."

  He chuckled quietly, a trausement crossing his face. "Life has a way of teag these lessons in the hardest of ways. I’ve learned mine. Hopefully, you’ll learn yours before it’s too te."

  With his pupils growing wide and his expression looking a little bnk, Ye Zong and others muttered to themselves over and ain, "The only thing that matters in this world is strength, everything else is just a delusion."

  "Young master Nie Li has deep insight at such a young age making us old men ashamed of ourselves." Ye Kai sighed, his voice filled with admiration.

  Ye Zong nodded his head and said. "I'll arrange a pce for young master Nie Li he City Lord's mansion. This pce is not suitable for you to live."

  "Since you're so sincere, I'll let you. But please don't seleething too fshy. Just somewhere fy with enough space to duct my csses."

  "Then... you're not leaving Glory City?" Yang Xin's eyes sparkled with stars, very happy.

  Jason nodded his head. "With all of you io stop me and so sincere in your apology, if I still be angry then it'll only make me look stingy. Hahaha..."

  Ye Kai nodded his head, his eyes held respect for him.

  "Young master Nie Li, I still hope you'll e to the Holy Orchid Institute and take the csses ihe campus."

  "Do you think I don't want to But with how young I'm, just my presehere will be enough to stir the entire Glory City. Sorry, I'm not ied in being the ter of attention. I have already garnered enough attention. No more!" Jason waved his hand. "So, it's best to follow my arra."

  "Okay," Ye Kai sighed and took a step back, agreeing with him.

  "Oh yes. Little brother left these things." Yang Xiing her ce took out the badge and robes, passing them to Jason.

  Jason took them and pced them inside his interspatial ring before taking out a paper and writing something over it before passing it to Yang Xin.

  "I want these herbs in a rge batch."

  "Leave it to me," Yang Xin took a look at the list of herbs and nodded her head, pg it into her interspatial ring.

  After that, they shared a few more pleasantries before leaving one by one, leaving Jason alone.

  Ye Zong had arranged for Ye Shuo to quickly find a suitable pce for Jason. In two days, everything would be arranged. Also, the required data of the students should be gathered as quickly as possible.

  Ye Kai also sent a message to Ye Shang to make a list of students acc to the data provided by Ye Shuo.

  If everything remained good, it would only take two weeks at most to finish every preparation.

  As for Jason, he decided to rex in the meantime. Helping the Inscription Association to finish all of their orders while giving suggestions to Gu Yan to improve the pills' quality and quantity. He even helped them solve many of their doubts.

  Jason also delivered the formu of Soul Nurturing Pills and Soul trating Pills iurn for taking over 40% of the profit Alchemist Association would make by selling those pills.

  Two weeks passed in a blink of an eye and Jason had even shifted te mansion, not as majestic as City Lord's mansion but still very eye-catg. It had quite a space to aodate over fifty people easily with a det training ground.

  Ye Kai personally brought the list of students personally selected by him and Ye Sheng after careful sideration.

  Taking a look at the list, Jason could see data of over two hundred children. The first name on the list beloo Ye Ziyun.

  Ye Ziyun

  Family - Snow Wind

  Soul Realm -

  Soul Force - 52

  Personality - Kind, Hardw, Curious

  It also included a few more things regarding their ret behavior, friends, and other things.

  Jason carefully observed the list and took a pen, writing names on a bnk paper.

  Ye Kai looked at the paper carefully, notig that the daughter of the City Lord was included, releasing a sigh of relief. Worried that she might not be selected. She had specifically requested him to let her join his css.

  So, Ye Kai had e here with that iion aside fring the list. If Jason hadn't selected her then he would have lowered herself and asked him to do that.

  "Here," Jason finished after he wrote the 20th name before passing it to him. He said. "I need a favor."

  "Please speak. If it's something in my power, I'll do it." Ye Kai cupped his hands.

  "I've pted this matter for the past few days. I want you to leave my name oudent being admitted to the Holy Orchid Institute. Do the same thing for my csses. And don't make it into a css but rather a club sort of thing."

  "But why? Don't you want to not attract attention to you?" Ye Kai uzzled by his request.

  Jason sighed. "This mansion given to me by City Lord has already made me a ter of attention. With many eyes watg this pce, dug csses here would be difficult. But it will also be a good thing if I select a pce at Holy Orchid Institute."

  "Then I'll make arras." Ye Kai nodded his head ahe pce.

  Jason closed his eyes and tacted DarkIetherbird via the soul e. "How is the progress going?"

  "My lord, five me for being so slow. But I'll need some more time. I had already ordered all the demos all over the St. Aral Mountain range, reying your order to them. We're searg all around nonstop with yet."

  DarkIetherbird's voice appeared in his head.

  "Speed up the process. Use aerial beasts to scout the faraces, I was as soon as possible."

  "Yes, my lord."

  Then the voice stopped as Jason opened his eyes. Summoning out a as thin as a cicada's wing, and was even a bit transparent with dense and difficult text written on it.

  Looking over the page, Jason's eyes fshed with deep light. 'Just what kind of treasure is that Temporal Demon Spirit Book? Just a single page is filled with such mysterious power! Being able to bend the most mysterious ws of Time and Space, I have to find it! It is a shame that I am uo find it in those four years back then.'

  Jason weaved a hand sign, cultivating peacefully with that remnant page h in front of him. Aside from the nourishment of the remnant page and his passive skills, Jason hadn't put his mind on cultivation, rather he was using his time to dive into the mysteries of Time and Space, trying to prehend one of the most difficult ws.

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