The Wei Family's Debt of Gratitude Is Repaid, the Promise of Years Past

After staying at the Extreme Mountain Sect for several years, Wei Tu once again bade farewell to Venerable Han Yue. He did not lose himself in Lüqiu Qingfeng's tender embrace.

"More than thirty years ago, Junior Brother Wei said his ambition was ascension. At the time, I was only half-convinced. Seeing Junior Brother Wei prepare to wander once more today, I now know that you truly are an ascetic cultivator."

Venerable Han Yue spoke with feeling. Seeing Wei Tu set out to wander again within less than half a century, he felt a little more admiration for him.

Wandering was merely the elegant term cultivators used for seeking opportunities.

Along the way, blades and spears, swords and rain were unavoidable, as were meals in the wind and sleep beneath the dew.

Even though Wei Tu was a Spirit Transformation Venerable, and few in this world could threaten him, how could wandering outside compare to remaining within the Extreme Mountain Sect as the sect's patriarch and comfortably enjoying the offerings of his juniors?

"Senior Brother Han overpraises me."

Wei Tu cupped his hands in salute and humbly thanked him, without continuing along that subject.

Cultivation was like rowing a boat against the current: if one did not advance, one retreated.

If he settled into comfort and forgot danger, then Scorpio Patriarch's miserable end at his hands would be a warning not far removed.

Moreover, fortunately, he had found the Great Flame Cultivation Realm. In this region, far more prosperous than the Ruins Sea cultivation world, he could seek resources without, like Venerable Han Yue, being watched by other Spirit Transformation Venerables and forced to remain within a single sect and region...

This was his fortune.

He ought to seize it firmly.

With that, Wei Tu took his leave. With a sweep