"No, no, no!" Dou Pi, the True Immortal, cried desperately. "Please spare my life, Exalted Immortal. I have excellent relations with several Spirit Plant Office heads in the nearby regions—Ben Hong, Tie Li, Wan Ni... We get along very well. You can ask them if you do not believe me. How would I dare Soul Search a spirit planter?"
Those three were all heads of the Spirit Plant Offices in the surrounding regions. Although True Immortal Yi Jue did not pay much attention to the Spirit Plant Path's daily affairs, she had heard of all three. Ben Hong and Tie Li were even Nascent Soul True Immortals.
"Whether you dared or not, I do not know," True Immortal Yi Jue said flatly. "I am simply curious—who gave you the nerve to speak of 'Soul Searching a spirit planter'? If you can name that person... I can spare you."
"I was just bragging, just bragging!" Dou Pi, the True Immortal, was nearly in tears. "Exalted Immortal, I will never talk nonsense again."
"Oh." True Immortal Yi Jue nodded and spoke blandly. "I understand. The Spirit Plant Path is still easy to bully... Have you ever bragged about Soul Searching a Golden Crow Sect disciple?"
Was I fucking crazy? Soul Search a Golden Crow Sect disciple? Dou Pi, the True Immortal, was about to argue back, but then he finally realized that this was all because of the nonsense he had spouted earlier. "Fine, this is what happened. A Golden Crow Sect retainer lost a Fire Seed a few days ago..."
That retainer was also at the Nascent Soul Initial Stage. He was nothing remarkable in the Golden Crow Sect, but in Honggu, he was already quite formidable.
Honggu could be compared to Yiyao here. Yiyao was one of the Grand Void