When Qutong learned of these legends and origins, he felt truly incomparably excited. He understood that he was stepping onto the righteous path of the Great Dao, and his future prospects would be unimaginably vast—countless times more fortunate than wasting away one's life in the Wilderness. For any cultivator, this was simply impossible to refuse.
Yet no one told him that the Evergreen Wood meridians required a special nutrient as an inhibitor to grow stably; otherwise, they would gradually erode the flesh and blood, turning a person into a plant.
Not joining the company? That was fine too. If he did that, he would have no free inhibitors to use, and if he were expelled from the company, he could only go to the Black Market and purchase them at twenty times the market price.
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