At the sound of that voice, Luo Shiqi immediately felt a chill run down his spine. His brow furrowed slightly. "Spirit Projection... peak?"
"I wonder how long I've been in seclusion." Space above the grand formation twisted, revealing a seated figure. He was thin and withered, his eyes still closed as his divine sense pulsed faintly. "What year is it now?"
"Greetings, True Venerable Guo Yi." A strand of divine sense came from afar. It belonged to a Spirit Wood Dao Nascent Soul cultivator currently participating in the elder selection over a hundred thousand li away. He was at the fifth level of Nascent Soul and nearing the end of his life, yet he sounded somewhat excited. "You have been in seclusion for roughly five hundred years."
"So it's you." True Venerable Guo Yi still did not open his eyes, but at his cultivation level, divine sense alone was sufficient.
He could no longer remember the man's name, but that did not stop him from lashing out. "It would have been one thing if your poor aptitude had limited your potential. But how could you allow someone to attack the sect-protecting formation? I thought I had secluded myself for over a thousand years and that the Spirit Plant Path had swallowed the Spirit Wood Dao!"
"We have disturbed Great Venerable Guo Yi." The Nascent Soul Intermediate Stage cultivator clasped his hands helplessly. "This True Venerable from the Luo Clan claimed it was a personal grievance, so it was difficult for us to interfere... He said Senior Brother Tian Xiang had insulted an ancestor of the Luo Clan."
"Tian Xiang?" Great Venerable Guo Yi remembered True Immortal Tian Xiang. "His lifespan should be nearly exhausted, shouldn't it? Did he achieve Soul Emergence?"
"He definitely did not achieve Soul Emergence," the Nascent