Zhao Yu thought back and forth, only to realize his only chance was at the Zhao Mansion.
Because entering a merchant group as an outsider was nearly impossible, even offering money wouldn't work.
This was a tacit agreement formed between the big families in the city.
Ordinary children who wanted to become immortal cultivators first had to be sent to great families to serve as servants at the age of six, advancing step by step, eventually standing out.
"Compared to outsiders, I, the fool, have a clean background, an orphan from infancy, picked up by the Zhao family..."
"My soul is intact, it is definitely intact now, there is no doubt about that..."
"Thus, to seek cultivation, the only path left is through Body Refinement..."
Zhao Yu frowned, children who had passed the test of will went elsewhere to train from the age of twelve, returning only at night for rest, almost existing in a different world from those of us who had failed, with very little interaction.
