To my child,

maybe I should have asked this question sooner. It was just...well, some things are so normal you never really think about them.

Still, I finally did ask the nice guard why he doesn't cultivate qi and he looked at me like I'm an idiot.

I thought it was normal that powerful people cultivate and poor people don't, even though the method is there for everyone to see. Even the fact that military martial arts for common soldiers is just basic physical cultivation even though qi cultivation is much more effective in the long run was just...it was just the way it was.

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Your father and she can't, even though most people in their family are at least somewhat sensitive. The guard can't feel anything either.

He doesn't know why they knew that I would be able to do this.

I'm starting to get nervous. Everyone has heard horror stories of human cauldrons and using lifeforce for unspeakable things. What if that's what they are going to do to me?

In love,

your mother