But no sooner had he begun speaking to draw closer to them than the expressions of Liu Yiyi, Pan Zhengxiong, and the other two Endless Sea Nine Sons Dao Seeds turned distinctly strange.
He took their reaction to mean they had been stunned by his sect's Sacred Mountain. Giving it no further thought, he continued his explanation.
"The Sacred Mountain of the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect is indeed not part of our sect's inherited Dao-Merging Grounds. It stood here long before our founding patriarch merged with those grounds and broke through to the Tribulation-Crossing Pseudo-Immortal Realm."
"As for where our Sacred Mountain came from, no one can say."
"Nor does anyone know why it appeared here."
"But search the entire Endless Sea, and I doubt you'll find another divine marvel like our Sacred Mountain."
"Even so, no one has been able to forge a contract with heaven and earth and claim ultimate ownership of it!"
"Now then, fellow cultivators, enough idle talk. Please follow me!"
After that brief explanation, Cao Yuxiu had no intention of wasting more time. Along the way, he had already guessed what troubled his sect's Grand Elder, yet he still extended the invitation with open generosity.
That choice owed much to his temperament, though other considerations inevitably played a part.
Ever since Cao Yuxiu had reached Great Vehicle Perfection and firmly secured his position as the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect's Dao Seed, he had devoted vast amounts of time to studying this mountain.
Tens of thousands of years passed in the blink of an eye.
Yet despite the staggering amount of time he had spent studying the Sacred Mountain,
what he had gained from it was, if not next to nothing, then little better than nothing. Even those meager gains, however, had cemented his position as the Mountain-Shaking