As soon as those words fell.
Wei Tu's brows furrowed slightly, and displeasure flickered across his face. Yet, as though he had thought of something, he did not refuse. He stepped forward and sent a strand of mana into the snake-bone artifact.
As mana flowed into it.
The snake-bone artifact seemed to come alive, transforming into a finger-length bone snake. Its tail swayed as it raised itself upright. Ghostly fire burst from its hollow eye sockets, carrying a trace of mysterious law power as its gaze peered into Wei Tu.
The next moment, the snake-bone artifact began to hiss.
Hiss! Hiss!
Once, twice, three times...
At the third hiss, it paused briefly before continuing to cry out.
Only at the eighth hiss did the snake calls abruptly cease.
"Eight snake calls? Senior Fu is eight thousand years old?" The Blazing Sun Territory Lord was stunned, scarcely daring to believe what he saw.
Previously, Wei Tu, who was nearly ten thousand years old, had already been regarded by him as a genius seldom encountered in a lifetime. Now that he was a full two thousand years younger, his rarity was undoubtedly even greater!
He could be called a genius the Rosy Sun Mountains had not seen in tens of thousands of years.
—During the early stages of cultivation, when cultivators advanced with bold vigor, gaining even a hundred years' lead over other cultivators was no easy feat, let alone two thousand years...
"An eight-thousand-year-old Void Refinement cultivator may be rare in the Rosy Sun Mountains, but there are still some among the other major serpentfolk tribes..." The old woman's gaze was deep and shadowed. She patted the Blazing Sun Territory Lord's shoulder, signaling him to calm down and stop acting so startled and lacking in composure.
"I lost my composure. I