Shi Xiaowu is one of the people Jiang Yuebai has known the longest, having apprenticed together in Huaxi Valley back in the day.
Both have Five Spirit Roots, both entered the Dao at the age of six.
Over twenty years have passed, Jiang Yuebai has reached Core Formation, while Shi Xiaowu is still stuck at the peak of Qi Cultivation, having failed the first Foundation Establishment attempt and not daring to attempt a second.
In reality, his situation is the norm for ninety-nine percent of Five Spirit Root cultivators.
Jiang Yuebai thought to herself that if it weren't for Lu Xingyun's gifts, the baptism of the Great Dao, her grandfather's cultivation technique, her master's teachings of the Five Elements Rotation Method, and her years of sleepless cultivation, she might also be like Shi Xiaowu, having wasted twenty years before reaching the threshold of Foundation Establishment.
