Noticing this scene!
Cheng Buzheng, standing in the void, casually swept his gaze over the middle-aged cultivator.
At the same time.
A faint voice rang out in that Golden Core True Person's heart.
"Enough!"
"Don't overact!"
Upon hearing that familiar voice, a strange glint flashed through the depths of the middle-aged Golden Core cultivator's lowered eyes before his expression swiftly returned to normal.
That was right!
The scene from before had merely been a grand performance staged for outsiders, with Cheng Buzheng and the middle-aged cultivator as its leading actors.
The reason Cheng Buzheng had cooperated so readily was not only because the middle-aged cultivator had once been the sole remaining Golden Core elder of the [North Azure Sect].
The other party also possessed another identity—he was...
This Golden Core cultivator was Cheng Buzheng's junior, named Cheng Changqing!
He was also the branch master who governed the Cheng Immortal Clan's cultivation lineage in the Jin Kingdom!
Back then!
When Cheng Changqing learned that the Soul Lamp of True Lord Sikong, the Nascent Soul Ancestor of the [North Azure Sect], had gone out, he knew that True Lord Sikong had perished in the Forbidden Sea.
Otherwise.
As the Soul Lamp of a sect's ancestor, True Lord Sikong's lamp would never have gone out.
Having learned this news, as a Golden Core elder of the [North Azure Sect], he knew that the sect's decline was an inevitable outcome.
At the time, a thought took root in his mind.
Sure enough.
As the Cultivation World's landscape shifted, most of the Golden Core cultivators within the [North Azure Sect] developed other intentions and prepared to seek another path.
Originally, he too had planned to join the sect where his own ancestor resided.
But later, after secretly discussing the matter with Ancestor Cheng Liu, he