At the foot of Resonant Jade Mountain, green blossoms covered the slopes, and a faint fragrance lingered in the air.0

A man curiously sized up Luo Chen. "You are Murong Yuan?"2

Luo Chen studied the man before him. He gave a slight nod, then could not help but ask, "Are you really Shopkeeper Wang's elder?"0

Normally, he would not ask something like this so directly. It was just that this man looked incredibly young. Luo Chen's divine consciousness told him that his interlocutor was at most thirty or so, and his well-maintained appearance and the fact that he was an Initiate made him seem no older than seventeen or eighteen. But in most cases, seniority based on cultivation realm only applied among cultivators without blood ties. Could it be that the Wang family followed the same rule even within their family?0

The young man smiled. "I am indeed his elder. I may be younger than him by sixty years or so, but according to the family genealogy, I'm two generations above him. He has to call me uncle."0

So that was the answer to Luo Chen's doubts. Well, in all fairness, the matter of seniority in the cultivation world had always been a tangled mess. For example, two brothers cultivated together. One reached the Golden Core Realm and remained celibate. The other, limited by talent, married in his twenties or thirties and passed on his bloodline. After three or four hundred years, the latter's family would have branched out through a dozen generations, maybe more. Then, if the former...6