Encounter

He declined his fellow Daoist's kind offer.

Seated cross-legged beneath the great locust tree in the Daoist temple, the tall, horned cultivator sank into thought.

It was not that he harbored any wariness toward Yun Yan, nor that he wished to conceal his cultivation. Rather, Tu Shan Jun still remained vigilant toward the Dao Lord's inheritance.

After all, that was a Dao Lord's Dao.

Even the slightest leakage could affect his own path, causing his road to unconsciously take reference from that Dao Lord's.

Given his current realm, it was indeed time for him to consider a method of becoming a Saint.

With that thought, the tall, horned cultivator brought both hands together into sword fingers and pressed them against his brow.

With a slight turn.

A blood-jade gourd emerged from the center of the flashing patterns and landed in his hand. With a stir of mana, the gourd swelled in the wind to the size of a human head, hovering before Tu Shan Jun.

"The Immortal Ascension Method of the Primordial Saint Spirit Demon."

The red-haired, horned cultivator murmured softly.

Even now, he still could not understand those hundreds upon thousands of "characters."

Yet the blood gourd seemed to have shed much of its fierce malice and gained a measure of gentleness.

White light, like drifting sprites, spun rapidly within the gourd. It greatly surprised Tu Shan Jun; the gourd and the white light seemed to have formed an inexplicable harmony.

He remembered clearly that this had been passed to him by the statue of the White Jade Patriarch when he left the Starry Luo Sea.

"Like sword qi..."

Only when his divine sense touched it did he discover that the lively mass of qi was still gestating and transforming.

That left Tu Shan Jun uncertain and alarmed.

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