What the fuck... Qu Jianlei was instantly thrown for a loop. He really was the type who yielded to soft approaches, not hard ones.
I still prefer the unruly way you were before! Looking at True Venerable Qingning in front of him, he sighed helplessly.
"I'm a little curious. How did you come to think that my Red Leaf Ridge lacks... lacks True Venerables?"
Red Leaf Ridge really did lack True Venerables, so he sounded a little unconfident asking this, but... it also did not lack True Venerables!
A True Venerable who had come to attach himself halfway through—why should he trust him? Did he really think the man's more than four thousand years had been lived in vain?
As for the Heroic Spirit's lingering obsession inside the Ritual Artifact, he could choose to trust it unconditionally, but other people? Better not.
A Dao Heart Oath... was it really that reliable? Qu Jianlei did not absolutely trust it.
Of the fifty Great Dao, Heaven derived forty-nine, yet there was still the one that escaped, so why should he test human nature?
As he asked, he also glanced at the Ascetic not far away.
Openly forming factions in front of Lingyun Sect's presiding True Venerable—was that really all right?
Baiqiao's avatar watched this scene indifferently and said nothing.
"You don't lack True Venerables..." Qingning was first stunned, then fell silent for a few seconds, shook his head helplessly, and gave a bitter laugh.
"Heh, I really never imagined there would come a day when even I would have nowhere to offer my allegiance. Why?"
He truly did not understand. Logically speaking, no force in Houde Realm could possibly reject the allegiance of a True Venerable.
In Cangwu, not every major force accepted Nascent Soul Realm cultivators who came to join them;