Hong Yun, or rather, one of his incarnations, had only meant to pass by Lu Sheng's place, yet ended up staying for more than ten days.
Lu Sheng had not stood on ceremony, inviting him to oversee the Light Sect while he himself slipped into an underground cave to enter seclusion.
Over this period, he had not merely wasted his time. After subduing numerous Little Demon tribes, he had obtained all manner of chaotic cultivation manuals to varying degrees.
Though many of them could not be used due to differences in physique, from Lu Sheng's perspective and realm, integrating them to improve his current primary cultivation method was no problem.
So, with Hong Yun overseeing things, he happened to begin his secluded cultivation.
Hong Yun truly lived up to his reputation as a good old fellow. Although he found Lu Sheng's doctrines somewhat baffling after truly understanding them, since he had agreed, he earnestly did his very best.
As soon as Lu Sheng entered seclusion, Hong Yun took out some of his private possessions and distributed a thread of Suspended Mist Cloud Aura to the Light Sect's higher-ups.
This cloud aura was a special breath that only Hong Yun could wield. It could temporarily remove the acquired shackles from ordinary creatures, soften bodies that had long matured and taken shape, and grant them a new day of remolding.
Quite a few giant birds that had originally been unable to achieve anything no matter how they cultivated rapidly shed their old forms and were reborn under the effects of the Suspended Mist Cloud Aura.
Moreover, birds were inherently the creatures closest to cloud aura, and they held Hong Yun in great reverence. This reverence was not merely born of the gap in strength.
Whenever some giant bird in the Light Sect