Lei Ting spoke without the slightest restraint, showing Xuanming Heavenly Venerable no respect at all.
Xuanming Heavenly Venerable merely smiled, utterly unconcerned. Though Lei Ting was an artifact spirit, she was also his close friend. Over dozens of calamities, he had repeatedly borrowed Lei Ting's power to survive great tribulations.
Such trivial teasing was nothing at all.
In helping him, Lei Ting had repeatedly suffered great tribulations that shattered her divine soul. Because of this, she had been unable to cultivate the Six Harmonies Eternal Spring Scripture.
Within three thousand years, she cycled through the transformations of birth, aging, and death, using them to preserve the spirituality of her divine soul.
Though this secret art was excellent, it carried an enormous flaw: it caused the cultivator's divine soul to remain in constant flux. To cultivators, this was in fact a great taboo.
Like Xuanyang under his tutelage, who had also cultivated the Six Harmonies Eternal Spring Scripture. Xuanyang's cultivation, however, was too weak and his mastery too shallow, so he could only reincarnate through a life state once every three hundred years.
Lei Ting and Xuanyang had both taken a shortcut through this cultivation. The continual changes in their divine soul states also made their emotions volatile. Lei Ting's unrestrained flamboyance and Xuanyang's lax indolence were partly their natures and partly the result of cultivating this art.
Xuanming Heavenly Venerable did not mind in the least, but everyone beside him was inwardly shocked. Still, they concealed their emotions well and did not dare reveal even a trace.
It was not Lei Ting's brazenness that shocked them, but Gao Xian's fierce resolve. Facing an eighth-rank Heavenly Venerable—his own sect's Founder—Gao Xian still refused to yield a single step!
They were also somewhat puzzled. Why was Gao Xian being so unyielding? Taking