Chapter 1081: Letter of Challenge
"Let's not talk about this."
Tu Shan Jun did not wish to discuss it further.
Seeing that his master had no such intention, Wu Rong did not press the matter.
He put away the Heavenly Dao treasure, stood by the Celestial Pool, and gazed toward the distant sky.
With a smile, he said, "If Senior Brother were still alive, that would be wonderful. He would surely be very happy, and he would be inclined to help me. It's just... he would probably also urge me to think thrice, like the sect elders."
"Xing Lie..."
Tu Shan Jun murmured softly, a trace of remembrance flashing through his eyes.
Xing Lie was still lying peacefully within the banner.
"Senior Brother was extraordinarily fortunate. In the end, he got what he wished for." When he spoke of his senior brother, Wu Rong's face carried guilt.
He had indeed remained for a long time, but he had not stood watch until the very end.
Once the Zhou family had younger generations to serve as its pillars, he rose and left the sect to seek his own Dao Path.
He still remembered his senior brother's voice and appearance, and he had once remembered the kindness shown to him.
Wu Rong's expression gradually calmed.
Before the great battle, he needed to adjust himself to peak condition.
By the shores of the Celestial Pool, master and disciple reminisced over the past and spoke freely of the future.
Within the endless domain barriers overhead, an immortal palace stood quietly, suspended across them.
It seemed illusory yet real, as though it existed in parallel time and space.
Though the two sides were so close, there was not the slightest fluctuation of spiritual opportunity or aura, as if that profound immortal palace had always