After another victory banquet, Li Ye received the pills Qin Qian had promised him and helped him plant those spirit herbs.
Once everything had settled into dust.
He saw off the fellow Daoists who had come to bid farewell, one after another.
Among them, Fellow Daoist Zhu and Fellow Daoist Lu had both gained enough from this journey and were returning to their sects to form their Golden Cores.
They did not dare form their Golden Cores here at Sky Vein Sword Mountain. After all, their sects were not close enough with Sword Cultivators to wear the same Daoist robe, so they had better return obediently to form their cores.
Before leaving, they invited him, saying:
"Fellow Daoist, if you travel to the Central Domain in the future, you must come visit our sects!"
"That's right. By then, we'll be Golden Core cultivators too. We'll take you around Kunwu Mountain!"
Naturally, Li Ye responded to their invitations with courtesy.
"Your and my Dao Paths have only just begun. We will surely meet again someday, so long as you two do not find me troublesome then!"
The two burst into laughter. "How could we? Then it is settled—we shall meet again another day!"
With that, the two strode away.
Afterward, Li Ye also saw off the Rogue Cultivators who had exchanged communication sword talismans with him, the cultivators from the Forging Spirit Sect... and the female cultivator from the Radiant Aspect Demon Sect.
The female cultivator quietly gazed at Li Ye, the corners of the mouth on her mask curling faintly upward. "Ah, I truly want to turn you as you are now into a puppet. But if I really did that, I fear you would hunt me down.
Besides... a puppet's appearance could not compare to even one ten-thousandth of