After that awkward moment, the Patriarch soon waved his sleeve and put away the pill furnace. Then he said, "The Dao-legacy pill has been refined, and the sword is ready too. We can more or less leave now. As for whether you've thoroughly mastered the techniques of the other sects, I can't worry about that anymore. There isn't much time left. We'll go shut down the old man's nine Grand Arrays right now. Take out the Star Compass first!"
"I await the Patriarch's orders!" I hurriedly replied. Qin Taishang immediately let out a huge sigh of relief. Putting away the pill furnace meant he wouldn't be catching her to refine pills anymore. At last, she had escaped with her life. As for He Chenxiang, she was doing fairly well. After spending the past few days together, she was no longer as afraid of the Patriarch.
I quickly led the Patriarch to where the fake Medicine Field was. After all, I had to let him meet his disciples and descendants, and we also had to hand over a few matters before heading to the other major sects.
The Medicine Field inside the Mystic Heaven Gourd naturally had to be preserved. Shutting down the Grand Arrays of the nine major sects was a momentous matter, and there would certainly be plenty of people trying to stop us. So, to prevent retaliation from hostile forces, keeping the disciples here was far safer than leaving them outside.
Yan Zhen and Song Ruo were naturally both shocked and delighted when they saw me bring the Patriarch over. They led the disciples in paying their respects one by one. The Patriarch had quite a few questions, but he had been a sect master for many years, after all, so he wasn't the sort of eccentric who