Wei Tu Emerges from Seclusion, Sect Infighting

"Like Seven-Leaf Master, he was at the peak of mid-stage Spirit Transformation. Just one step more, and he could break through to late-stage Spirit Transformation."

After carefully sensing the white-browed elder's vitality and blood energy, Wei Tu estimated his cultivation realm.

Without question, the white-browed elder was the same sort of person as Seven-Leaf Master: old-generation Spirit Transformation cultivators hidden within the Great Flame Cultivation Realm. After relying on several thousand years of cultivation and grinding away with time, they had reached mid-stage Spirit Transformation. Yet they lacked talent, resources, and ambition, so they had always found it difficult to break through to late-stage Spirit Transformation and ascend to the Spirit Realm.

The difference was that, unlike Seven-Leaf Master, this white-browed elder was somewhat weaker at gathering intelligence. He only knew to wait by a tree stump for a hare, creating a crisis within Swordfire Palace and waiting for Wei Tu to walk into it. He did not know that Wei Tu had already been cultivating in seclusion within Swordfire Palace for several years.

"A mid-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator isn't someone I need fear with my current strength. But if I rashly go out, he will likely do as Seven-Leaf Master did—flee swiftly once defeated..."

"Though these aged Spirit Transformation cultivators are nothing remarkable in terms of realm, every one of them has honed their divine abilities and escape arts to nearly the utmost limit."

Wei Tu's gaze turned faintly cold.

He could certainly drive off the white-browed elder if he acted, but his peace within Swordfire Palace would inevitably be disturbed. Then he would likely fall into an endless stream of "challenges," perhaps even forcing these hidden Spirit Transformation cultivators to join hands against him.

That was not something he wished to see.

Moreover, if possible, he would rather