"Blood Lake Ancestor—he truly was an old friend..."
Jiang Ding muttered to himself.
Over three thousand years ago, Blood Lake Ancestor's avatar had descended into the Lower Realm. He had injured Jiang Ding many times and nearly beaten him to death.
The ancestor of the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect had been even more terrifying. Commanding stronger Space Teleportation techniques, he had actually descended into the Minor World in person.
Unfortunately, his fate had been poor. He died at Xi Yuan's hands, and even his soul had been forcibly searched.
Both of them had been Late Stage Void Refinement cultivators.
"Blood Lake Corpse Mountain has the potential to unify the Thunderflame Domain."
Jiang Ding pondered.
In theory, the Artifact Sect should interfere and refuse to allow unification within the various domains, lest it weaken their control.
But that was not necessarily so.
If the Artifact Sect was fighting a powerful enemy and had its attention tied down, unable to spare any thought for other matters; or if Blood Lake Corpse Mountain had bribed some Artifact Sect elder, or even acted directly on an elder's orders; or perhaps it was the scheme of another hostile immortal sect... all such possibilities could lead to unification.
"It would be nice if I could catch Blood Lake Ancestor alone."
Jiang Ding thought quietly.
He wanted to beat Blood Lake Ancestor to death, then go to Blood Lake Corpse Mountain and obtain the Immortal Technique Fragment.
The obstacle now was that Blood Lake Corpse Mountain had more than one Void Refinement cultivator, and its sect grounds surely contained a terrifying Sect-Protecting Grand Array. Jiang Ding could not defeat them.
"Let's talk about it later. There's no rush."
"The key now is gathering the materials for the Sun Sword Refining Method."
After searching through Amorous