"Zhengxiong, you've lingered at Great Vehicle Perfection for years. Surely more than half your lifespan is gone by now?"
"Don't you want to claim Tiannan Continent, a ready-made Dao-Merging Grounds?"
"After all, if I survive my next Heavenly Tribulation, my lifespan will at least double again."
"By then, you might never live to see the day I fall and you inherit the Dao-Merging Grounds."
Hearing the test in his master's words, Pan Zhengxiong made no attempt to hide the longing in his eyes.
"Of course I want the Dao-Merging Grounds, Master. I simply disdain taking them by such means."
"Otherwise, with only two or three strays left in the Tianyan Sect, Qin Yezhou reduced to a remnant soul, and Sect Master Luo no stronger than Dao Integration..."
"If I cared nothing for the reputation I've built over the years, taking them would be as easy as reaching out my hand!"
The statue of the Heavenly Moon Sect Founder regarded his confident disciple in silence for a long while. In the end, he said nothing more.
Meanwhile, on Nameless Island near the Talisman Sect.
The island, once lush with vegetation and brimming with life, had all but become scorched earth.
The thunder that had filled the sky and the demon monsters' aura that had permeated the area were gone. Only wisps of smoke rose from the burning ground and drifted through the air.
The cultivators of the Talisman Sect, Sun Family, and Sea Prosperity Pavilion stared blankly at the island below, disbelief filling their eyes.
That young Immortal Envoy was only in the Combining Dao Realm, yet he had effortlessly ended the Demon Monster Calamity that had plagued them for so long.
He had even gravely wounded the fat white pig who claimed to be a Heavenly Moon Sect Personal