YuXiao had been easily been keeping up with Bai Li's pace which shocked her because she could clearly sense that this person was a mere mortal, but she did notice a strange eerie feeling coming from YuXiao. The two ventured forward until they'd reached the end of the forest, Bai Li gotten a strong impression of YuXiao because he'd kept up with her pace for the entirely of the journey without breaking a sweat.
"Have you considered becoming an Cultivator, I can tell that you haven't reached the age of when Martial spirits awaken and just how impressive your abilities are you will surely awaken a Powerful Martial spirit." Bai Li explained while eying him to see how'd he'd react to this information.
"Me? I doubt I'd awaken any worth while Martial spirit which cultivation sect would even take in a nobody like me anyways," He sighed while trying to find an excuse not to join a sect as he's cultivating the Dark Heaven Mantra he didn't need to surround himself with future enemies
"Certainly not, you were able to keep up pace with me, a cultivator at the peak of the Qi gathering realm. Your potential will be valued highly you could even consider join the Blue Lotus sect. I am actually the granddaughter of an elder I could get my grandfather to get you into the sect no questions asked, what do you say?" She asked him as he became dumbfounded when he heard this proposal.
"Truthfully I don't know how to respond to your overvaluation of my talents, I am but an orphan who's trying to survive in this heartless world. What has the Blue Lotus sect got to offer me if I were interested?" He said sadly, He'd been abandoned at ever twist and turn having nowhere left to turn to, this offer from this Blue Lotus sect could be his new beginning.
"The Blue Lotus sect can offer you a home and will treat you fairly and will never wrong you, the world might be heartless but my Blue Lotus sect isn't well accept you even if your talents are subpar." Her expression that had always stayed as cold as ice started melting as she revealed a warm smile aimed at YuXiao.
"Alright, I'll join the Blue Lotus sect. This mortals name is YuXiao and I Thank you, Immortal Bai Li for helping me leave the Forest in one piece. " he said as he cupped his fist and bowed toward Bai Li, she was pleased as how this turned out for her Blue Lotus sect.
"Catch," she threw a Metal with the words Blue Lotus engraved into it.
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"This is my Identification token, Take this to the Blue Lotus city which the city owned by the Blue Lotus sect and show them this and they'll take care of the rest. if you have any troubles once there about the authenticity of the metal just say Bai Li of the Bai clan sent you." She smiled and walked back into the forest.
Sighhhh, I need to go to this Blue Lotus sect I should be able to get resources from there and a place to stay. But first I need to forge a mask or something to cover my face that damned curse essentially makes me a walking calamity to anyone who comes in contact with me.
While YuXiao was thinking that same ethereal voice appeared again in his head.
The Dark Heaven Mantra's Qi is able for condense and take physical form, as such you can create a special mask that can hide your presence and block the curse by a marginal amount. You just need to focus and center your hatred and envision what you want the mask to look like.
After hearing this, he immediately started focusing his hatred and imagined a blood red mask. His Hatred Qi condensed into a mask in front of him and it dropped onto the ground but after the mask condensed YuXiao cultivation drastically decreased to the beginning of the Anguish Qi gathering realm.
All the accumulation he'd done with the Evil spirits turned into a singular item now in his possession.
"This looks just like I imagined it would be, sadly to condense it I regressed my cultivation back to the very beginning. what should I call this mask? hmmm, Vengeful mask. it shall be symbol desires to get vengeance on the heavens for cursing me!" He carried an excited expression and reached for the mask on the ground and tried putting it on his face.
When he put it on he feel a portion of his cultivation had returned to the middle of the Anguish Qi Gathering realm from his previous Peak of the Anguish Qi gathering, he had to keep the mask on to ensure his safety. He then looked around and found a small village to get directions to Blue Lotus city, He arrived and quickly went to acquire some information and he got directions to Blue Lotus city.
The Journey to Blue Lotus City was a long one and would require 3 months just to reach the city, and there was one place that could give him some troubles in his journey there, It was called a the Blazing sea. It was a treacherous sea that could burn people alive if they came into contact with it, if he were to cross it directly it would be he'd take 3 months to to arrive. If not it would take another 3 months just to go around it, he didn't want to take too long and thought that he could use this sea to temper his body even further.
And so he decided to go with the risky path for the potential benefits of tempering his body and see if he could breakthrough to the Seven Depravity Realm, the next stage of the Dark Heaven Mantra. He could only breakthrough by contemplating and focusing his hate, other then that he truly didn't know how to achieve that breakthrough.
Either way, right now for YuXiao the best thing to do was start the journey to the Blazing Sea!