"What? Senior Brother, you must be joking. Spirit Herb Mountain's sect master, Perfected Master Tongyu, is only a cultivator of the Foundation Establishment Realm. How could they possibly compare to our Thunder Cloud Villa?" The woman's face was filled with astonishment, and she could not help crying out softly.
"Why would I lie to you? This news also came from that inside source. Spirit Herb Mountain isn't merely skilled at pill refinement. In the dark, they still have quite a few elders in secluded cultivation. Aside from cultivators of our level, they aren't lacking even old monsters of the Nascent Soul Realm." The old man said gravely, "What I said just now was still conservative. It's not impossible that their strength is even a cut above Thunder Cloud Villa."
The woman bit her lip, still looking as though she did not quite believe it. The male cultivator glanced at her, then gave a cold laugh himself. "Junior Sister, I am absolutely not exaggerating. Otherwise, why do you think those forces all left so quickly? After all, the matter of the Heaven Dust Pill is only a rumor, and they are even less willing to offend such a powerful sect. You must understand, pill refiners are given face by everyone because people need to make use of them. But having many Core Condensation experts and Nascent Soul old monsters within the sect is another matter altogether. In the cultivation world, the weak are meat and the strong eat; strength will always come first."
"Then are we returning empty-handed this time?" the woman asked, somewhat unwilling to accept it.
"What else can we do? Since Spirit Herb Mountain has hidden such a great force, they must have long been well aware of our secret surveillance. If it really was Lin Xuan who