Taking What's Mine Ahead of Time Isn't Stealing!

Three days later, the various sects departed Maoshan one after another, escorted by True Person Huayang.

The reason they had stayed on Maoshan for three days wasn't because the promotion ceremony had lasted that long. If it had, Hao Shuai would've gone crazy.

The ceremony itself had lasted only a little over half a day. During the remaining two days, the various sects had taken advantage of this once-in-decades promotion ceremony to hold a discussion on the Dao.

As True Person Huayang had put it, "It's rare for the leaders and elders of so many sects to gather here on Maoshan. This is an event the cultivation world hasn't seen in a century. Why not seize this opportunity to sit together and discuss the Dao, share our thoughts, and learn and improve together?"

Hao Shuai still remembered how excited he'd been when he heard that!

A discussion on the Dao!!!!

What an impressive-sounding phrase!

At that moment, Hao Shuai had thought of the Three Pure Sages, the Two Sages of the West, and Nuwa, and the celestial wonders that appeared when they discussed the Dao.

Golden lotuses in the void, white rainbows illuminating the blue sky, immortal dragons and divine phoenixes crying out, jeweled canopies and necklaces, golden flowers and auspicious clouds...

Uh...

All right!

The above was purely Hao Shuai's imagination. After all, such celestial wonders only appeared when Sages discussed the Dao!

But even if it wasn't that extravagant, there should at least have been some kind of spectacle, like the Three Flowers appearing above their heads, spiritual energy condensing until it was visible to the naked eye and forming auspicious clouds, or spiritual energy spreading into mist and nourishing all things, right?

But when Hao Shuai had finally waited eagerly for the "discussion on the Dao" to