Chapter 50: Setting Out (1)

Sun Mei bit down on her lips as she looked at her master. She had worked the entire year so that she may put up a glorious display at the martial arts gathering. Yet the truth of the matter was that the martial arts gathering gathered the best of the best from all villages in the core mountains of the Qilin mountain range. Someone like her who was only one of the best in one of the weaker villages could hardly compare with those monstrous geniuses from the strongest villages.

Chen Mei sighed. The path of cultivation was not for the faint-hearted. There would always be those with greater talent, luck, or even perseverance. There was no way to just overcome those more gifted than you. All one could do was firm their mind and stick to one's cultivation. Only then could they achieve greater heights. She understood Sun Mei's pain, after all, she too, had been similarly helpless despite her best efforts all those years ago