After leaving Miss Amanda's store Bai Xiang returned home in a good mood, he was completely convinced that joining a sect was the best option.
As usual, he returned home and his parents were at work so he made some food and then returned to practicing his movement technique, he should be able to complete the first step in a week or two so he would have plenty of time before he left.
According to the information he was given disciple recruitment will happen in a little over 3 months' time. He also learned that if he could break through a major realm in that time he would definitely be instantly picked as a personal disciple.
Thinking about it that would be pretty difficult if he tried to do that and learn his movement technique, on the other hand, if he showed up not knowing any technique he would be a laughing stock.
Bai Xiang was already worried that since he did not know any offensive skills it would difficult for him to fight, all he would be able to do is run around, if he couldn't even run around well he would just die if he fought anyone at similar cultivation to him.
All he could do was suck it up and hope that on his trip to the capital, he would run into some kind of fortunate encounter, the system would notify him if he came across something valuable, right?
From what he could understand the system had a vested interest in him getting strong, not just because it was fulfilling a purpose as a system but because it had some deeper meaning. If the system that gave him a divine cultivation method was currently only at the strength of a flashlight compared to a server farm, wasn't his system significantly more game-breaking than one could imagine?
'What if it is the ancient inheritance of some old god?'
Currently, that was his assumption, if he could take advantage of it he would rise beyond the heavens!
As he was laughing to himself he continued to practice the first step of the Moonlight Night Run, as a high-level technique he was convinced that he would be untouchable in this world, being able to run away is a wonderful skill as well after all.
With renewed determination a week passed and the sun had just set while Bai Xiang and his parents were sitting at the dinner table, today Bai Xiang had told his parents something important happened and he needed to speak to them.
"Mother, Father, I will have to leave our Crystalline Peak Town soon. I will be joining a big sect so I might not see you guys for a long time!"
Hearing his announcement his parents were shocked but also excited, his mother was the first one to recover.
"That's wonderful, what happened to doing THIS and THAT with Miss Amanda at the Aquae Vitae store though?"
His father also nodded along, in the past few weeks his father had also sometimes come to Bai Xiang to give him advice to increase customer satisfaction which was incredibly awkward for them both.
"It is no problem, Miss Amanda has some business to take care of in a higher world and wants me to get stronger so she is sending me to a strong sect to get strong enough to follow her later!"
Bai Xiang shamelessly threw Miss Amanda under the bus and put everything on her, it would just be too unexpected if they truly understood what was happening to him.
Just to prove he was even more shameless than other people he added more unnecessary information to make his parents relieved.
"Haha Mother don't worry, apparently with my physique if I become immortal the people I do THIS and THAT with can become stronger with my HELP."
Hearing his words both of his parents were dumbfounded, cultivation by doing exercise was possible too?
In the lower worlds, dual cultivation was unheard of, in truth it did not become well known until one reached one of the heavenly worlds, people in a large small world would not know anything about it.
Even Bai Xiang thought he was spouting nonsense but his parents were eating it up, his father nodded and spoke seriously.
"That is good, many people will probably pursue you in the future, so make sure to pay significant attention to Miss Amanda to show your gratitude! Our Bai family is not large but being ungrateful is not a word we can allow ourselves to be described as."
Hearing his father he nodded along, he really liked his parents, they were the stereotypical average good people, if one wanted to pursue a calm and peaceful life it was the ideal family.
While he was thinking he suddenly had a great idea if he left his parents they would have nobody to help them out or take care of them later in life, wouldn't he be a bad son if he just left?
'System is there any way I can get some cultivation methods for my parents? Something to just bring them to the upper levels of the mortal realm is perfectly fine.'
Bai Xiang's thinking was simple, if his parents got stronger they could take care of themselves longer and have lots of time to have more children. From the looks of it now his parents were in their thirties so if they could advance a few major realms their lifespan would increase by a hundred years at the soul-stabilizing realm and another hundred years for every major realm after.
In response to his question, the system took a few seconds to respond.
Hearing the system's response Bai Xiang wanted to cry blood, 1 week of cultivation was something like an entire minor realm if he did this there is no way he would reach the soul-stabilizing realm in time for the disciple recruitment in three months' time.
After thinking for a few seconds he came to a decision.
'What am I thinking about, a mere week of cultivation can ensure my parents a good life, even if I am not really their son I still have some duty to them. It is not good to be selfish, I will definitely do this for them.'
With that Bai Xiang told his parents to wait a moment and went to grab an old piece of paper from his room, a paper was pretty rare for people of their wealth so he did not have many.
When he returned he handed the paper with random things written on it to his parents and spoke.
"I had to beg Miss Amanda and let her do all kinds of things but she gave me a cultivation method to let you guys become some of the most powerful people in our large small world. Quickly read this paper and you will understand the method."
His parents both gave him strange looks as they looked at the paper that just had random words, it seemed like completely random words without even sentence structure but suddenly they both changed into expressions of enlightenment.
'It seems like the system probably needed most of the power it will take back from me to actually transfer the information to them.'
After a few minutes of understanding, Bai Xiang's father suddenly had a very understanding paper as he looked at the paper.
"So it is like that! This paper seems ordinary at first but once you know the secret it all makes sense, what a truly powerful method of sharing knowledge. Know this paper is plain to read for me."
Bai Xiang couldn't help but look at his father completely dumbfounded, this guy really knew how to bullshit as well. It was less surprising when soon after his mother also chimed in.
"Yes, yes it's really simple now, since we of the Bai Family know the secret now we can ascend to heaven in one step. We will definitely have to take time off work to fully understand this, when Miss Amanda comes back we also must thank her. Even for her, this must be an expensive item to give to us, our son is really too good at customer satisfaction!"
Bai Xiang couldn't help but look at his mother and father with affection in his gaze, he fit in here, they were also very shameless! His mother did not bat an eye even though her son effectively sold his body for these gifts, if he was a girl instead of a boy wouldn't this entire situation be very different?
They soon continued talking about how much time they could take off work and how they will handle the expenses in the near future, since it wasn't relevant to him Bai Xiang went back to his room to practice, tonight or tomorrow he should be able to complete the first step successfully!