He smiles.

"Xian-ge said the same thing. We're...different from that branch of the family, he insists. Aunt Qing is the best doctor and she trains others to be doctors as well." He picks out a few plates from the basket. "And we thought that I would also continue that but...we saw the potential in me to be a cultivator and chose that path instead. Some people in our world didn't like that idea."