The higher a person's cultivation, the harder it became to restrain greed and desire once they arose.
Especially the obsession with the Nascent Soul and the yearning for immortality—no one present could suppress that "devil" born from the depths of their hearts.
At the sight of the Heavenly Infant Fruit appearing, every cultivator went mad.
Ninety-nine Core Formation Prodigies shot forth, instantly unleashing their Golden Core magic power and flying at full speed toward the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm.
Zhao Tongxuan stared fixedly at the Immortal Mountain ruins and streaked forward, his eyes burning with fanaticism. "It's the Heavenly Infant Fruit. I must seize it and help my teacher reach the Nascent Soul realm."
He had been an orphan, adopted by a Qi Refining Stage couple from Three Joys Immortal City while still swaddled in infancy. When his spirit root had been tested at age seven, the phenomenon of a Heavenly Spirit Root had soared into the sky.
He possessed a Single-Attribute Heavenly Spirit Root—a Gold Spirit Root—which had attracted the then Great City Lord. The man had accepted him as his personal Eldest Disciple and taught him with great care, as both master and father.
After his adoptive father and mother had consecutively failed their Foundation Establishment breakthroughs and died, his teacher had become his only family.
Reaching the Nascent Soul realm had already become his teacher's heart demon.
Moreover, if he did not break through soon, his teacher would have at most eighty or ninety years left to live.
"For my teacher, I must seize the Heavenly Infant Fruit." Zhao Tongxuan said loudly, "Zheng Fa, Lu Huan, Junior Sister Xiuxin... Luo Tai, Wang Ming... all those at Foundation Establishment Late Stage or above, help me seize the Heavenly Infant Fruit."
"Yes!"
Their magic power erupted as they flew