There were thirty-two disciples following Lu Xing and Fuling on their mission to recover the goods stolen from the Jiang family's shop.
There were fifteen brothers following Lu Qi and Yuan Xuanbao to Tiantai Mountain to take advantage of the chaos.
With Li Fan and Zhang He joining them later, they made exactly forty-nine Foundation Establishment disciples from Ink Bamboo Mountain.
After surviving the sword-fighting calamity and enduring the Void Star Heavenly Book, only five had escaped their fated deaths, made it back to Bamboo Mountain alive, and seen with their own eyes the morning glow gilding the Lou Guandao Pagoda.
Needless to say, all five had a good chance of reaching the Golden Core Stage.
No, not all of them merely had a chance. Fuling had more or less already made it.
She had been stuck at the threshold for many years. In the end, when Zhang Jiugao died, she sang with such passion and emotion that a pair of immortal crane wings sprouted from her back right in front of Li Fan.
Fortunately, there were plenty of methods for stabilizing one's Dao Body in the Mountain Lord's lineage. Fairy Wangshu had also given Fuling plenty of advice long ago. It was only because of her own lingering trauma that she had kept thinking about taking the Taiji Xian Dao.
Fortunately, those immortal crane wings were white and large, translucent and beautiful as snow-feathered crystals. Fuling herself didn't feel much resistance when she looked at them. Perhaps they even let her remember someone...
Since things had come to this, fate had played its hand, and she could only take up cultivation in the Mountain Lord's lineage of the Tai Su Dao.
As soon as their treasure ship returned to Lou Guan's Outer Sect, Real Person Wei led four black-robed