Previously, his understanding of the Black Cloud Minor Realm had come from soul-searching a Spirit Transformation cultivator of the Feather Saint Sect.
The intelligence could not have been wrong.
But... likewise, limited by their horizons and cultivation, such petty Spirit Transformation cultivators could hardly know certain secrets of this realm.
If he could obtain a legitimate route to the Sky-Demon Realm besides the Blood-Refinement Land, then attending this Five-Clan Auction would count as another gain for him.
Though the Five-Clan Auction was approaching, there were still two or three months before it was truly held.
Wei Tu had also been away from the Deer Mountain Daoist Grounds for nearly half a year. After calculating the time, he spared no effort in returning there.
—His flesh-and-blood phantom body was no longer the Blood Ghost Soul-Splitting Technique of old, which could be controlled across realms. It could fool the middle-aged beautiful woman during a temporary inspection... but using it to replace his true body in normal life was still utterly impossible.
"Ruan Shui'er's apprenticeship ceremony?"
The moment he returned to his cave abode, Wei Tu spotted an additional invitation at its entrance.
One had to know that he was solitary by nature. In all his years living in the Deer Mountain cave abodes, no fellow disciple had ever invited him anywhere.
Now, Ruan Shui'er had suddenly sent him this invitation. Naturally, he was greatly surprised.
In a sense, he was something of an oddity within the Deer Mountain Daoist Grounds.
"So this cultivator took Ruan Shui'er as a personal disciple? Ruan Shui'er's fortune is rather good." After reading the invitation, Wei Tu slightly raised his brows and thought to himself.
Though he had never personally met the cultivator who had accepted Ruan Shui'er as a disciple, he had seen this cultivator's