Although Lu Yang could guess some of how stifled Spirit Immortal Shangzhang must have felt, he did not know the full details.
By now, he had withdrawn his gaze. He no longer watched Mu Changsheng within the Law Refining Secret Realm and had even decisively severed his connection with the Ancestor of the Yun Family.
The reason was simple.
In that instant just now, I actually considered manipulating the Ancestor of the Yun Family to recruit Mu Changsheng and take him into the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.
That thought alone made Lu Yang choose to cut ties.
Whether he was being overly suspicious or making a mountain out of a molehill, the pit that was the Primordial True Person was simply too deep. It was not something he could handle at his current level.
Only a True Lord might possibly be able to keep hold of it.
"What Dao Lord secret? What Mu Changsheng? They are all empty! Only my own strength is real. The most urgent matter is to keep improving!"
Lu Yang took a deep breath and sat upright in Parting Sorrow Heaven.
Without even needing to form a thought, vast quantities of incense fire began converging on him. Then, to his surprise, he discovered that there was even more incense fire than he had imagined!
Of course. Aside from the Eternal Unborn Mother, the White Lotus Sect worshipped so many Divine Lords and divine venerables, splitting off a massive amount of incense fire for nothing. Now that I have killed them all and gathered the incense fire together, a rough estimate says it could probably support two more Foundation Establishment Perfections!
This was an unexpected delight.
Since the White Lotus Sect possessed such an incense fire foundation, the comparable City God system and the Imperial Ancestral Temple