Unexpectedly.
After Second Senior Brother told Li Ye these secrets, he stated plainly:
"This matter does not require your involvement yet."
"Junior Brother."
"Come back after reaching Nascent Soul. Hurry along. Time waits for no one."
Li Ye, who had already been considering how he might contribute, was slightly stunned.
But beneath Second Senior Brother's complicated gaze,
he could only nod. "All right."
Then he slowly turned and left. As he departed, he sensed bronze-colored halos spreading through the surroundings.
This was...
Jianmu's power—or rather, the power of the Bronze Tree of Sky Vein Sword Mountain. It was vastly stronger than the tiny amount he had absorbed.
Li Ye did not stop.
The bronze streamers curled past his body like morning mist, drifting behind him.
They gradually formed a bronze wall.
Only then did Li Ye suddenly realize... his Second Senior Brother seemed to specialize in body-tempering arts.
He turned back for a look, but all he saw was the bronze wall sealing off the entire grotto-heaven.
The power of time had divided everything.
"Why all of a sudden..."
Li Ye could not understand. Was it merely because Second Senior Brother had learned that cultivators of Heavenly Vein Body Tempering were one of the materials needed to cultivate Five-Colored Flowers?
So Second Senior Brother wanted to try?
But Second Senior Brother was only at Golden Core.
Standing before the bronze wall, he waited for a while, hoping his master or some other elder of the sect might come and clear up his doubts.
Yet after waiting for a long time, no one came.
He could only sigh and return to his cave abode.
But after returning to the cave abode, he was shocked to discover—he had clearly only been gone for the brief time it took to drink half a