Grave Robbing

"This time, I fell victim to a devil cultivator's scheme while I was out, so I don't remember many things."

Chen Luo adjusted the direction of the book in his hand and offered Zhong Yan an explanation.

"It's all because I was useless."

A trace of self-reproach flashed through Zhong Yan's eyes. When Lu Chen had gone down the mountain, she had wanted to go with him, only to be stopped by Lu Chen.

Master Ling Xu's tribulation transcendence was imminent, and there were only the two of them, Soul Transformation cultivators, in the sect.

Their youngest junior brother apprentice, Wu Cheng, was only in the Core Formation Realm and was still struggling through the First Step of Immortal Cultivation. He simply could not hold down the fort for the sect. Left with no choice, only Lu Chen could descend the mountain while she stayed behind to guard the sect. Only then did what followed happen. Now that she heard Lu Chen had been injured, Zhong Yan instinctively felt guilty.

If she had been more resolute back then and gone down the mountain with her senior brother apprentice, perhaps none of this would have happened.

"There was no place in the Immortal Cultivation World that was absolutely safe. Being able to return alive was already a stroke of luck."

Chen Luo offered a few words of comfort.

Then he changed the subject and brought up Ling Xu Grotto-heaven.

"When Master broke through to the Void Refinement Realm, he seized Venerable Yang Ji's Nine Nether Fruit. Now that Venerable Yang Ji has broken through to the Dao Integration Realm, he will certainly find a way to retaliate. Master chose to forcefully undergo tribulation transcendence because he sensed the danger, but alas, man proposes and Heaven disposes."

At the mention of the