Xiao Jie thought to himself that he should establish their relationship first and then continue, "You are already my great benefactor, how could you have the heart to strike at me?"
"Fair enough, fair enough, it's merely a verbal effort," the other replied.
"Then why does the elder not leave this place?" Xiao Jie asked.
The Red Dust Taoist sighed, "It's not so easy. Although I have not succeeded in my cultivation to become an immortal, I am nonetheless a half-step immortal, and that is why I have lived to this day. Now, I'm only missing the last breath of spiritual energy... but if I leave this place, I fear my realm would immediately fall."
Xiao Jie asked curiously, "Why is that?"
The old man explained, "This spiritual energy is like water, and a Qi Refiner is like a sponge that absorbs enough spiritual energy to eventually ascend to immortality.
If the sponge is submerged in water, it naturally absorbs more and more water."
