Because I had to wait until I took two Eighth Tribulation Desolate Beasts to the Pillcloud Sect, Chen Fa soon half-coaxed and half-forced Lu Ge to stay at Heaven's Unity Sect. The itinerary for these days had long since been arranged, and there was not much on the schedule—just touring the Pillcloud Sect, the Chenyang Sect, and the Xingyue Sect to see how their surrendered troops had submitted to Heaven's Unity Sect, as well as meeting with those troops and attending a few grand banquets centered around reminiscing. After all, the several deputy sect masters Chen Fa had brought with him were bound to have friends and subordinates who had "fallen" and become members of Heaven's Unity Sect.
As for me, since I could control the Toad but certainly had no way to control the Flying Whale, either one would have been enough to deal with the Pillcloud Sect easily. However, I had recently been locked in a cold war with Xue Qingcheng, and deliberately asking for her help over nothing gave me a good excuse. Otherwise, I really would have had no idea how to bring it up.
Gu Rong, Chi Liu, and Shu Li had all gone into seclusion to attempt the Seventh Tribulation. As for An Jun, Xiao Yi, Huaxia Yue, Xu Yunyun, Mo Xuanling, Lin Chong, Wu Donglai, and Cao Weijia, those elders had only recently emerged from seclusion, all having reached the Sixth Tribulation. This was thanks to the pills I had purchased directly from Jinxian Dao before, along with the resources I had extorted from the Second and Third Sect Masters. Heaven's Unity Sect now lacked nothing except trustworthy talent and time. We could even build two or three divine towers below the seventh level without any problem.
The only issue was that divine