Red Dragon's Breakthrough, Deng Shuyan's Fight for Favor

"However, now was not the time to celebrate. There was still one year until Zhu Old Devil's breakthrough."

Wei Tu understood that once he impersonated Red Dragon Ancestor and "broke through" to the Quasi-Spirit Transformation realm, the Dingling Sect that now rallied around him might not necessarily obediently continue serving as his "pieces."

A Quasi-Spirit Transformation powerhouse was a crushing blow from a higher dimension to the Dingling Sect.

The current Dingling Sect relied solely on Lü Xiqing, a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator, to hold the fort.

Previously, the realm he displayed after joining the Dingling Sect had been the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. His strength had not been enough to threaten the sect's native cultivators—or, rather, Lü Xiqing and Wen Changying, the father-in-law and daughter-in-law.

But after breaking through...

That might no longer be the case.

Therefore, when the time came, the attitudes of Lü Xiqing and Wen Changying would be the most crucial factor.

Of course, Wei Tu reckoned that Lü Xiqing and Wen Changying were unlikely to oppose him. After all, the kinship-recognition ceremony had already been held before countless witnesses. If something happened to him, the two of them would inevitably be implicated as well.

Conversely, if they covered for him, they might even be able to borrow the momentum of his "Quasi-Spirit Transformation" realm to restore the Dingling Sect's former glory.

But these were merely his predictions, not certainties.

The future would not necessarily unfold according to his wishes.

A year passed in the blink of an eye.

Soon, the day of Red Dragon Ancestor's breakthrough arrived.

That day, Red Dragon Ancestor sent Wei Tu a voice transmission from within his secluded chamber, asking Wei Tu to guard his path. Then he withdrew his divine sense and devoted himself wholeheartedly to breaking through.