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Old Mother Wusheng had actually been forced into joining Jiang Yuanzhen's command. She had endured in silence for thousands of years, all to wait for this day, only for her myriad schemes to come to nothing. There was no place for her among the Heaven-Connecting Realm experts.
It would have been one thing if she had simply failed to advance to the Heaven-Connecting Realm, but she had also tried to kill Su Xin on the Path to Heaven. That had thoroughly forged a deadly enmity between her and Su Xin.
After all her years in the Jianghu, Old Mother Wusheng had never met anyone more vindictive than Su Xin.
Heavenly Emperor and Zhao Jiuling had both died by his hand. Clearly, Su Xin had no intention of sparing Old Mother Wusheng either.
Especially after Su Xin openly issued a wanted notice and placed a bounty on Old Mother Wusheng throughout the Jianghu—this move made her grind her teeth in hatred.
Ordinarily, no one would dare place a bounty on an existence like her, one who stood at the pinnacle of the Divine Bridge Realm. But the one who had issued the bounty was Su Xin. This was the first such case in the Jianghu in ten thousand years.
In this situation, Old Mother Wusheng's simplest option was to seek secluded cultivation overseas, or deep within the mountains and ancient forests of the Southern Barbarians or Eastern Yi. Those places were sparsely inhabited, and Su Xin's influence was nowhere near great enough to turn the entire Jianghu upside down in search of her.
But was Old Mother Wusheng truly the sort who could endure loneliness? She had finally emerged into the world once more; she had not