Feeling the fluctuations of True Essence within the cave, Black Shadow decided to investigate. With another Black Shadow following him, he flashed several times and appeared at the entrance of another cave not too far away.
"Greetings, Ancestor!" Ma Li, who had been cultivating inside the cave, felt his Spiritual Sense stir. Hearing someone call for him, he immediately withdrew from cultivation and walked out. When he saw the Ancestor, who had not left his cave for years, along with his pet Black Blade, he hurried out and promptly knelt in salute.
This old master truly was an old master! He was the Ancestor of all Sorcerers in Malaysia. No one knew how long he had lived. Ma Li himself was already over two hundred years old, yet from the time he had first come up the mountain until now, every time he had seen the Ancestor's face, it had never changed.
This time, the Ancestor still wore the same old face, unchanged in the slightest. Even his clothes were the same as before. When had Ma Li last seen this old master? After thinking for a while, he dejectedly realized he had forgotten. Had it been ten years ago? Or twenty? That meeting had been so long ago!
Though they rarely met, Ma Li could often hear the Ancestor's voice. That was because the Ancestor frequently used his Spiritual Sense to transmit his voice directly into their minds.
"Mm. Get up."
"Ah? Oh, alright!" Ma Li had not heard the Ancestor speak aloud in a long time. The Ancestor usually communicated through his mind, so he was briefly unaccustomed to it.
"Go take a look at the mountain gate. Someone has come, and he seems somewhat interesting. Go test him. I'll watch from the side," the patriarch said lightly.