Divine Feather Dynasty

The other side.

After walking through the rain for a long while, Li Zhōujūn suddenly slapped his forehead. "Good grief, I set up a formation for that blade of grass, but forgot to conceal it. What if the formation attracts other demons or cultivators? Wouldn't that end up harming it?"

With that thought, Li Zhōujūn retraced his steps.

When he returned beneath the tree, the old man and the youth were already gone, and the Spirit Gathering Formation on the blade of grass had also been concealed.

When the blade of grass saw Li Zhōujūn again, it swayed back and forth as if it were delighted.

"Looks like the old man from earlier took care of it," Li Zhōujūn said with a sigh.

"Cultivate well here." Li Zhōujūn gave the blade of grass a word of advice before rising and heading toward Jiang City.

After all, he had already traveled along the other road, and after walking for so long, there was nothing interesting to see.

By the time Li Zhōujūn arrived at Jiang City,

the old man and the youth who had encountered him beneath the tree earlier had already arrived outside a residence.

"Lu Wuhen, I, Yu Ziyue, have come. Aren't you coming out to greet me?" The old man looked at the residence's gate and chuckled.

"Hahaha, Ziyue, I've been waiting ages for you!" Just as Yu Ziyue finished speaking, an old man dressed in finery walked out through the gate with a hearty laugh.

When he saw Ashi, he froze slightly. "Ziyue, have you taken on a disciple?"

"Mm. This boy is called Xiao Shi." Yu Ziyue smiled faintly. "Ashi, hurry up and pay your respects to Uncle Lu."

Yu Ziyue had originally wanted Xiao Shi to greet him as Grandpa Lu, but if he did that, wouldn't Lu Wuhen inexplicably become a generation senior to him?

"Xiao Shi pays his respects to Uncle Lu." Xiao Shi bowed to Lu Wuhen.

"Little Shi, there's no need to be so formal. Tsk, tsk, Foundation Establishment at sixteen. Ziyue, you've taken in an excellent disciple. He has the bearing we had in our younger days—he's no worse than even Dao Tian Sect's top prodigies." Lu Wuhen laughed.

Then he sighed with emotion. "Back when the two of us roamed the world, we were young and hot-blooded. Now look at us, both of us white-haired and old. One has a lineage, and the other has taken on a disciple. How things have changed."

"That's right." Yu Ziyue sighed as well. Suddenly, his gaze sharpened as he looked at Lu Wuhen's chest. "That injury of yours..."

"It's nothing." Lu Wuhen smiled faintly. "I've lived long enough. Being able to see an old friend again before I leave this world is enough for me. It's just that before I die, I still want to see how my granddaughter's illness is doing and watch her recover."

"Take me to see the girl," Yu Ziyue said solemnly.

The injury in Lu Wuhen's chest was an old hidden ailment left behind when he was young, after the two of them had gone to hunt down a demon cultivator.

That hidden ailment had been caused when Lu Wuhen took a palm strike from the demon cultivator in Yu Ziyue's place.

That was why Yu Ziyue felt deeply distressed now. He only wanted to fulfill his old friend's wish before Lu Wuhen passed away.

"Good." Lu Wuhen nodded and led the master and disciple to a side room.

When they opened the door, they saw a beautiful girl lying on the bed inside, her eyes tightly closed.

This girl was Lu Wuhen's granddaughter, Lu Zhining.

Xiao Shi was, after all, still a young man. When he first saw such a beautiful girl, his face reddened, but he quickly composed himself.

After all, he and his master had come here to save someone.

"The last time I saw the girl, she was still in swaddling clothes. I never thought that in the blink of an eye, she would have grown into such a graceful young lady," Yu Ziyue said.

Lu Wuhen gave a bitter laugh. "This girl has always had a wild temperament. After I'm gone, Ziyue, you'll have to look after her for me."

"Of course." Yu Ziyue nodded solemnly. Then he opened and closed his Dharma Eye once, and immediately saw what was wrong with the girl.

"Ziyue, can you tell what's wrong with my granddaughter?" Lu Wuhen asked.

"Mm. The girl previously entered a Void Immortal Cave Mansion. Although she came back out, she must have triggered a formation inside. Of her three souls and seven spirits, her three souls were left behind by a formation in there." Yu Ziyue frowned.

"As expected of you, Ziyue. You saw the girl's problem at a glance. But now, how do we rescue her three souls?" Lu Wuhen asked anxiously. "If there's truly no other way, I'll just break into the Void Immortal Cave Mansion. I'm a dying man anyway."

"No." Yu Ziyue refused decisively. "I've heard of the Void Immortal Cave Mansion near Jiang City. It's a blessed paradise left behind by an ancient great power for Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators. If a Golden Core cultivator or anyone above that realm enters, they'll die and their Dao will vanish unless their cultivation has likewise reached the Void Immortal realm."

"Then what do we do?" Lu Wuhen asked. He was only at the Early Soul Transformation stage, so he clearly feared that the moment he stepped through the Void Immortal Cave Mansion's entrance, he would die and his Dao would vanish.

"Although I'm only at the Soul Transformation realm, I'm also a Fifth-grade Spirit Formation master. Pulling the girl's three souls back shouldn't be a problem." Yu Ziyue spoke arrogantly.

"That's good." Upon hearing this, Lu Wuhen immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, Yu Ziyue took action.

He bit through his index finger, and in the next moment, began outlining a formation in the air.

A full hour passed before Yu Ziyue slowly lowered his hand. His aged face was covered in sweat.

Seeing his master in such a state, Xiao Shi immediately felt heartache.

"The formation is complete."

Yu Ziyue looked at the red light floating in the air and said, "Next, we only need to place one of the girl's hairs inside the formation, and it will be able to summon her three souls back."

"Ziyue, I can never repay this great kindness." Lu Wuhen cupped his fists toward Yu Ziyue.

Yu Ziyue hurriedly stopped him with a bitter smile. "Wuhen, what are you doing? If you hadn't taken that palm strike for me back then, how could I still be standing here talking to you? This is what I should do. If you keep this up, don't blame me for turning my back on you."

"Hahaha, I'm the one being too polite." Lu Wuhen laughed heartily. To have such a close friend in life left him without regrets.

Seeing this, Yu Ziyue also smiled.

However, just as Yu Ziyue was preparing to take the next step, an incomparably imposing old man's voice suddenly rang out above the Lu Family: "Lu Wuhen, hand over the supreme treasure you stole from my dynasty, and I will spare your entire Lu Family."

"A Void Immortal?"

Feeling the aura from above, Yu Ziyue immediately sucked in a cold breath. "Wuhen, what have you done?!"

"Ahem, my granddaughter wouldn't wake up back then, and I heard that the Divine Feather Dynasty had a Sky Feather Pill that could bring the dead back to life. So I stole the Sky Feather Pill they had placed on display in their main hall. I thought I had done it flawlessly, but I didn't expect to be discovered after all." Lu Wuhen's expression was awkward.

"You're truly incredible. You actually managed to pull off something like this right under a Void Immortal's nose." Yu Ziyue did not know whether to laugh or cry. Lu Wuhen made it sound easy, but for a Soul Transformation cultivator to steal something right under the nose of a Void Immortal from the Divine Feather Dynasty was no simple feat.

Then Yu Ziyue asked, "Where's the Sky Feather Pill?"

"Of course I gave it to the girl. What else could I do with it? Keep it around to give birth to a second one?" Lu Wuhen said with a bitter smile.

"You really are something. You've caused a huge disaster this time. The Void Immortal who came after you is probably Yuhua Ji, the mysterious Supreme Emperor of the Divine Feather Dynasty." Yu Ziyue was helpless.

"One who commits a deed takes responsibility for it. In any case, I can't implicate you and Ashi." Lu Wuhen said.

"Bullshit. We grew up wearing the same pair of pants. If there's trouble, we'll face it together. Come on, let's go meet this Supreme Emperor of the Divine Feather Dynasty!" Yu Ziyue said decisively.

"All right." Seeing that Yu Ziyue had made up his mind, Lu Wuhen knew he could not stop him and could only agree. But he also resolved that he absolutely could not implicate Yu Ziyue and his disciple.

At the same time as the Void Immortal from the Divine Feather Dynasty descended,

the common people and cultivators throughout Jiang City were crushed to their knees by that terrifying aura.

Li Zhōujūn, who had only just entered Jiang City, stood where he was and looked up in surprise toward the Void Immortal above. Then two more old men rose into the sky, one of whom was the old man who had once given him an umbrella.