The procedures for joining Five Immortals Hall were not many, but they were by no means simple.
Mountain God Yi Xun first led Ye Zhen to pay respects to the statue of the founder of Five Immortals Heavenly Fortune Hall, an old man known as the True Immortal of Heavenly Fortune. Heavenly Fortune Hall, however, worshipped this True Immortal of Heavenly Fortune as a god.
At first, Ye Zhen did not pay much attention to it. But when Mountain God Yi Xun handed Ye Zhen a set of admission vows and had him read them aloud before the statue of the True Immortal of Heavenly Fortune—
An indescribable aura, one that ordinary martial artists simply could not sense, suddenly stirred and rose. In fits and starts, it actually formed a faint, indescribable connection between Ye Zhen and the True Immortal of Heavenly Fortune.
It was like a chain stretching across the void, faintly linking Ye Zhen and the True Immortal of Heavenly Fortune together.
Yet just as that inexplicable connection was about to stabilize, the Mirage Dragon Pearl within Ye Zhen gave an exceedingly slight tremor. It was as though someone had blown a breath at a spiderweb about to be woven; the nearly completed web was immediately thrown into disarray by the wind and snapped into several pieces.
The mysterious connection that had nearly formed was thus severed.
Ye Zhen himself noticed none of this. Whether it was the Mirage Dragon Pearl's slight tremor or the inexplicable ripple emitted by the statue of the True Immortal of Heavenly Fortune, both were too subtle to detect.
Ye Zhen had not noticed, but the Supreme Elder, who had just finished speaking with First Hall Master Su Chilun, gave an inexplicable shudder in his spiritual shadow and looked toward the statue of