"For instance, little brother, during the Alchemy Dao Conference a few months back, you made quite a name for yourself. Even though you're just a little cultivator in the Qi Refining Realm, you've started to stand out across various continents and gained a bit of a reputation! Much more impressive than me, your senior brother."

"With a reputation, you can go many places without any obstacles. For example, some large Workshops won't reject you based on your cultivation level. Or if you want to visit some Sect secret realms, meet with powerful Sects, and exchange insights and spar with some strong cultivators, you need a certain amount of fame."

Understood.

Fame...

"And the Magpie Bridge Festival is also an event that can boost your fame." Su Yu thought for a moment before continuing, "The normal procedure is to register one's realm, background, and so on. Then disciples from Creation Gate will conduct some sort of potential calculation on each individual. They claim it's to calculate everyone's potential, to better match people with suitable companions using their Sect's Ancient Treasure.

"In reality, it's just about arranging disciples from various Sects to spar and duel.

"After the matching is done by the Ancient Treasure, it then reveals the person you're fated with."

At this point, Su Yu paused. "Creation Gate's Ancient Treasure is pretty amazing. When the Magpie Bridge Festival first started, many cultivators didn't believe in it and thought the event was a joke.

"So, many Taoist couples disguised their identities and concocted special backgrounds to attend... Some were even Loose Cultivators who were hardly known.

"As a result, the Rebirth Mirror without exception revealed all their actual Taoist couples..."

Here, Su Yu seemed to remember something and couldn't help but smile. "It reminds me of a funny incident."

Wang Mu felt a tingling on his scalp.

"What incident?"

"Well, when the Magpie Bridge Festival first began… weren't there many cultivators trying to make a scene? Among them, there was a Taoist couple from Lizhou Tianlong Mountain who attended.

"Later, after the Rebirth Mirror accurately revealed many cultivators' Taoist couples, only that couple from Lizhou Tianlong Mountain had an issue. The male cultivator, facing the Rebirth Mirror, saw not his beautiful female companion but another male. He thought he had caught Creation Gate red-handed and made a huge fuss at the Festival.

"So guess what happened, little brother?

"What happened? After some investigation, it turned out that the male revealed by the Rebirth Mirror was actually his former brother!" Su Yu burst into laughter. "His brother was in love with him, but alas, he was male. Later, he cultivated some secret technique that could alter Yin and Yang, gained Tianji, changed his appearance, and turned into a beautiful woman to become his Taoist companion… and it went undetected for years… The guy had no clue!

"That incident caused a huge embarrassment back then! It also made many cultivators amazed by Creation Gate's Rebirth Mirror, as both individuals were high-level cultivators in the Nascent Soul Stage. The one who had undergone the gender transformation practiced an extremely rare secret technique, and yet, the Rebirth Mirror could easily reveal their original form."

...

If he hadn't heard, Wang Mu would have rather not known and now wished to return even more.

Is this thing that freaky?

"So what happened afterward, Senior Brother Su Yu?" A disciple, equally enthralled, hurriedly approached and asked, "Did those two cultivators break off their relationship?"

"No," Su Yu shook his head. "The cultivator came to terms with it, and after receiving the blessing from the Rebirth Mirror, they were quite affectionate. It is said that a few years ago they already had a son and a daughter, both with decent Spirit Roots, and now they're both Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

"We cultivators, drawing from the essence of heaven and earth, find it extremely hard to conceive. But if blessed by the Rebirth Mirror, it's said to increase the likelihood of successful childbirth, and many high-level cultivators attend the Festival for that. They don't participate in anything else but seek just one blessing, wishing to raise offspring."

...

Creation Gate wouldn't be involved in birth planning in the Cultivation World, would they?

"Plus, if those revealed by the Rebirth Mirror are willing to become Taoist couples..." another senior brother came over and, continuing Senior Brother Su Yu's words, said with a smile, "they can then enter the Rebirth Mirror's Three-Life Illusion Realm to cultivate their relationship.

"Should they successfully pass the trials within the Illusion Realm, Creation Gate will gift the couple an Exotic Treasure, blessing them to grow old together.

"This trial is quite challenging, and seldom do couples succeed. But those who do are exceptionally loving. Even if they don't succeed, they come out sharing mutual respect and courtesy."

...

"For you guys, what you should mainly focus on is the Potential List issued by the Magpie Bridge Festival.

"Based on the history of the Festival, those with high Potential Values often find excellent marital matches, rarely ending up alone. This Potential List is also a standard by which various Sects judge the young cultivators of each generation in the Cultivation World.

"The higher the ranking, the greater the boost to our fame.

"Like our eldest senior brother, in previous Festivals, he was a noteworthy figure on the Potential List. He attracted many Outer Sect female disciples, but regrettably, after that incident, while his fame grew, it didn't exactly improve..."

Upon returning, Wang Mu found that the eldest senior brother had entered seclusion at Contemplation Cliff.

He had promised to teach me a Divine Skill, but he hasn't come out of retreat yet!

I heard from Sect Master Jian that our eldest senior brother is at a critical point in his Breakthrough...

With many disciples on the boat idly chatting, they unknowingly had already crossed Huangtian Continent.

The location of the Magpie Bridge Festival was outside the Nine Provinces.

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