Half an hour later, atop Yanhuang Peak.
"Hmm, some elders have come to visit? Let them in."
Xia Ping raised an eyebrow. He had originally intended to rest for a while, but upon hearing that elders had come calling, he temporarily abandoned that thought and had them admitted.
After all, they were mighty figures of the Dharma Image Realm. Within the Universe Sect, they were esteemed veterans who had rendered great service; he could not refuse to see them.
Whoosh!
Very soon, three elders strode in from outside. They were Ma Guowei, Ma Shengping, and Ma Minghao. Though they looked aged and frail, their aura was not to be underestimated. They walked with the stride of dragons and tigers, at one with heaven and man, faintly carrying the power to fathom the mysteries of sun and moon and shift the planets themselves.
"Greetings, Elders Ma. May I ask what brings you here so suddenly?"
Xia Ping came straight to the point, without exchanging pleasantries.
He recognized these three Universe Sect elders. All of them came from the Ma Family.
It was said that ten thousand years ago, the Ma Family had merely been an ordinary family, utterly insignificant in the universe. Its patriarch had at most been a Golden Core Realm True Person. Yet Ma Guowei, Ma Shengping, Ma Minghao, and three other Ma Family geniuses had suddenly emerged. They shared the same breath and branches, and all joined the Universe Sect together.
The result was that they supported one another, soaring ahead by leaps and bounds, encountering fortuitous opportunities one after another. By now, all of them had advanced to the Dharma Image Realm and become elders of the Universe Sect, while the Ma Family had grown into a renowned great family within the Universe Sect, its branches and