Luo Chen smiled faintly and helped himself to a cup of wine.
"A temporary setback means nothing. With your strength, joining a great sect may yet give you a chance at Core Formation."
Chu Kui gave a scornful laugh.
"Forget it. Chu has always come and gone alone, fighting for every resource with his own hands. I can't stand being bound by a sect."
Luo Chen frowned.
The opportunity of the Great Dao lay before him—was he going to give it up merely because he did not wish to be constrained?
If that was so, why did he wear such a gloomy expression?
Seeing Luo Chen's confusion, Chu Kui sighed.
"Actually, even if I joined a Golden Core Great Sect, so what?"
"Those famed righteous sects would never bestow precious Core Formation resources upon me."
"At the end of the day, I would still be an outsider."
Chu Kui pursed his lips, signaling Luo Chen to look toward the entrance.
Xuan Yu of Peach Mountain, who had previously won the Core Formation Spirit Medicine, was walking in surrounded by a crowd of Foundation Establishment True Cultivators.
He strode like a dragon and paced like a tiger, glancing about with an air of command.
High-spirited and full of vigor, he truly cut a dashing figure!
"What is it?" Luo Chen asked, puzzled.
Chu Kui transmitted, "Though Xuan Yu was once an independent cultivator, his aptitude is exceptional, and he also possesses the Dragon Yang Body. Yet even someone like him is only fit to serve as the male concubine of Peach Blossom Ancestor from Hundred Flowers Palace."
"Do not be fooled by how he commands Peach Mountain and enjoys limitless splendor."
"When it came to Core Formation, Peach Blossom Ancestor still did not grant him any Core Formation Spirit Medicine from