He had been waiting since midday, all the way until the sun went down.
At last, someone had arrived!
"Swish! Swish!"
The muddy ground beside Gu Ming suddenly gathered into shifting sand.
The sand gradually came together, taking the shape of an old man in a Daoist robe, with long white hair and a beard.
"High Person, you've arrived!" Gu Ming hurriedly bowed when he saw the Daoist.
The Daoist merely nodded slightly and asked in a somewhat hoarse voice, "How goes it? How many souls have you offered in blood sacrifice to my Soul Refining Banner?"
"Reporting to High Person, I have offered three thousand seven hundred and thirty-one people in blood sacrifice. I'm still more than two hundred short of the number you specified."
Gu Ming spoke respectfully. "At most, it'll take another two months to complete the sacrifice and let this supreme treasure take shape."
"Good! Good! Good!"
Master Xuanzhi clapped his hands and laughed, saying "Good" three times in a row.
After so many years of careful plotting, he was finally about to succeed!
He had been an ordinary mortal, with pitifully poor spiritual roots. By a stroke of luck, he had stumbled into a cultivator's cave dwelling and obtained its treasures. Only then had he embarked upon the long road to immortality.
As a Rogue Cultivator with no sect or master, his path of cultivation had been extraordinarily difficult.
After years of frustration, Master Xuanzhi had finally begun to walk the path of evil.
Relying on the Blood Sacrifice Method, he had barely managed to break through to the Qi Gathering Realm. After reaching the Second Heaven Realm of Qi Gathering, he had been unable to advance even an inch.
To keep growing stronger and gain the power to protect himself as he roamed the