All Roads Converged on Shangqing Sect!
For this Core Formation ceremony, sixty to seventy percent of Qingling Region's Foundation Establishment cultivators had come. It could not have been more grand!
"Ha ha ha, isn't that Fellow Daoist Li from the Black Sand River's Li family? How have you been lately?"
"Brother Gu, it's been a long time! Recently, I gathered two of the main ingredients for the Purple Sun Pill. Someday, I may have to ask you to fire up your furnace and refine pills for me."
"Easy enough, easy enough!"
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Li Qing followed the Lin Family Patriarch, Lin Xiaonan, all the way to Shangqing Sect's mountain gate.
There, he even spotted several familiar faces!
"Oh, isn't that Fellow Daoist Zhong? Some time ago, I heard you were looking for someone to repair the Golden Warship. Has there been any progress?"
Lin Xiaonan immediately led Li Qing and Shen Ningbing forward to greet an acquaintance.
This man was Zhong Ya. Back then, he and the Lu Family Patriarch, Lü Feiyu, had pursued Li Qing together, nearly driving Li Qing into a desperate corner.
Following behind Lin Xiaonan, Li Qing recognized this old acquaintance at a glance. He sneered inwardly, but his face remained utterly impassive.
For this visit to Shangqing Sect, Shen Ningbing and he had naturally disguised their appearances. They would not be recognized so easily.
Yet when faced with Lin Xiaonan's greeting, Zhong Ya's face turned slightly ashen.
"Hmph, the affairs of my Zhong family are none of your concern. You should worry more about yourself."
"I heard your eldest son and daughter haven't been doing too well in the Upper Sect lately. If they want to save enough sect contributions for a Foundation Establishment Pill, I'm afraid they'll have to wait until the year of the