Indeed.
The duty elders of the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect's Scripture Repository were all Nascent Soul True Lords!
They were also Nascent Soul Cultivators like Xuanming True Lord, with little lifespan remaining and no hope whatsoever of advancing further.
There was even less of a chance for them to break through into the Spirit Transformation realm.
Likewise, the sect was unwilling to use treasures such as Innate Gang Sha and Earthly Turbid Qi on cultivators whose potential had already been exhausted.
Nascent Soul Cultivators in the prime of their lives, however, were different!
Naturally, the sect was even more reluctant to leave them here, wasting their finest years!
Shortly after.
Xuanming True Lord greeted True Lord Siyun, the duty elder, in his usual tone.
After the two exchanged pleasantries for a while...
True Lord Siyun turned and departed.
At this moment!
Only Xuanming True Lord, seated cross-legged on a meditation cushion, remained in the partitioned room on the top floor of the Scripture Repository!
A moment later!
Xuanming True Lord, seated cross-legged on the meditation cushion, slowly opened his lowered eyelids and swept his gaze around...
A trace of delight surfaced in the depths of his eyes.
"It seems True Lord Siyun did not detect anything unusual!"
"He really has left!"
The next moment!
A thought stirred within Xuanming True Lord...
An unusual light emerged in his murky eyes.
In an instant!
His field of vision underwent an earth-shaking transformation.
The walls on all four sides instantly turned insubstantial, and faint Array Patterns linked one to another appeared before his eyes.
That was right!
The dense, intricately interwoven Array Patterns winding about him were precisely the formation veins concealed within this quiet room.
Their complexity rivaled that of a fourth-tier Great Array!
However.
This was merely a small portion of