Lou Wu

Li Yuanba's life remained almost completely unchanged. He usually stayed in seclusion for a month, then left his cave dwelling to receive cultivators seeking pills. After that, he made a trip out to deliver the alchemy materials those cultivators had sent to Main Body Li Shiming.

From Li Shiming, he brought back the spiritual pills that had been delivered the previous month and were already refined. If they were spiritual pills for great cultivators, the process took two months or even longer.

Although his behavior was somewhat odd, as a grandmaster alchemist and also an unparalleled genius cultivator, even slightly strange actions would be treated as normal.

The higher-ups of Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion also knew Li Yuanba was currently in a secluded cultivation state, so they did not assign him any further tasks.

Just the Hell Blessed Land mission he had previously participated in, along with his pill refining for Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion, was enough to match the contributions of those sword cultivators who diligently took on missions.

After the Hell Blessed Land mission, Li Yuanba's reputation also spread widely, and he became one of the top genius cultivators in the Central Continent, even in the entire cultivation world.

The cultivators and factions that bore grudges against him and wanted to cause him trouble were unable to act because he remained in seclusion for so long.

No faction could reach into the mountain gate of Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion. At most, they could only buy some intelligence.

Ten years after Li Yuanba entered seclusion, an important matter made him temporarily end it.

On a desolate little island outside Sword Peak, Li Yuanba and Great Cultivator Lou stood in the air off to the side, quietly watching Lou Wu on the island.

Today was the day Lou Wu attempted