Walking into the Trap! True Monarch Wusheng

Ascension Islet, Talisman Making Pavilion.

The Zhang Family Ancestor wore a troubled expression.

He had waited in vain for Zhang Lingshan, only to receive all sorts of idle outsiders instead—useless trash with little to no connection to Zhang Lingshan.

Ji Mengxuan and the Old Hag of Wu Mountain, who had been waiting here with him, had already given up. Only Zhang Tianshi remained.

In truth, he wanted to give up too. He could not waste his precious life here.

With his talent, if he had not stubbornly stayed here waiting for Zhang Lingshan, he might have broken through to the Spirit Essence Realm by now.

He had heard that several of the people who had descended to the Lower Realm to Manifestation alongside him had already broken through to the Spirit Essence Realm.

The Zhang Family Ancestor was so furious and jealous that he trembled, yet there was nothing he could do.

Because he was different from the others.

The others were alone, free to do whatever they pleased and come and go as they wished.

But Zhang Tianshi had someone behind him.

Moreover, that person was a Dharma Aspect Realm expert—an even older ancestor of the Zhang Family, who had ascended long ago. Zhang Tianshi had stumbled upon him by chance and initially thought it was a tremendous blessing. With a Dharma Aspect Realm expert as his backer, his future should have been limitless.

Yet he had never expected it.

This backer was a living vampire.

He only took benefits and never did anything. Once Zhang Tianshi sought him out, he had become little more than a slave.

It had also been this man's idea for him to descend to the Lower Realm and Manifestation, ordering him to devour and gather fortune before feeding it back to him.

Unfortunately,