With their cultivation levels low and their strength nowhere near sufficient, the three disciples of the Cloudpeak Sect on Emergence Peak—an ichthyosaur spirit, a squirrel spirit, and a pine tree spirit, all senior and junior disciples—had rashly teamed up and gone to Chaoge to provoke Jiang Ziya. Though they had luckily succeeded and earned double the reward in a single day, a full two hundred sect contribution points, the price they paid was devastating!
Although the ichthyosaur spirit had immediately brought the squirrel spirit and the pine tree spirit, those two unlucky fellows, back to their sect after the Main God announced that their provocation mission had succeeded, returning to the summit of Cloudpeak... after he merged the pine tree spirit back into her own body, however, her condition didn't improve at all!
Not only had she failed to improve, but he had also noticed that the pine tree spirit's true form—the great pine tree beside the large blue-gray rock in front of their sect—was slowly turning yellow. It looked as if its leaves might soon fall in great numbers and the tree might die.
As for their little junior sister, that fat squirrel spirit was in even worse shape!
Nearly all her fur had been burned away. Once she changed back to her original form, the ichthyosaur spirit could barely make out the faint rise and fall of her chest. Otherwise, he might have thought the only thing he'd brought back was a fat squirrel with its fur and skin scorched by lightning.
So,
With their nominal sect leader, their teacher Flame Immortal, away from home, and their nominal senior brother—the book demon Investiture of the Gods—neither doing sect missions nor handling anything, much less helping them, and only ever cultivating or sleeping by himself, the only one the