Meng Xinghun also knew that his ancestor was lucid at times and muddled at others, so he could not help asking again, "Will tempering my body with lightning more often be enough? Should I ask that Feng Mountain Lord for advice again?"
"Don't ask him," the ancestor stated decisively. "That fellow is even more terrifying than the peeping Golden Core."
Meng Xinghun was greatly startled. "There was a Golden Core spying on us?"
"There was no ill intent, just curiosity," the ancestor said disdainfully. "If I were not reduced to this wisp of remnant soul, I could take on two Golden Cores like that. This Feng Mountain Lord is the truly terrifying one."
Meng Xinghun asked curiously, "What makes him so terrifying?"
"Instinct, perhaps. He could scatter this wisp of my resentful soul into oblivion." The ancestor's consciousness calmed somewhat, a sign that he was about to fall asleep. "Inside that fellow's Spirit Beast Bag is an exceptionally strange and powerful existence..."
Following the previous plan, early the next morning, Tang Shixun and Su Yuanjiang left with the two Thunder Cultivators. The place became quiet again. Another day later, Elder Bai arrived at Lantern Town.
He had only dared to come after hearing that Tang Shixun and Su Yuanjiang had left. If those two had still been there, he truly would not even have had the nerve to show up.
This time, he had not come alone. He had brought along a Mid Emergence from Dust master from the Ten Directions Platform. This Master Hua was unexpectedly acquainted with Kong Ziyi.
Master Hua was rather helpless as well. He told Kong Ziyi that he had come at the request of a fellow disciple. "I am only responsible for ensuring his safe journey there and back. Fellow Daoist Kong, you need