Big Bamboo Peak had always been at the bottom of the Seven Peaks in terms of strength. The disciples of the other six peaks looked down on Big Bamboo Peak to some degree, which left Tian Buyi deeply frustrated and helpless.
Now that they had finally gotten a chance to rise, circumstances had forced them to give it away. Though they still had a second, improved cultivation method, the one they offered up would still greatly advance the cultivation of disciples from the other peaks. And once they offered it up, the fourth level of the Taiji Mystic Purity Dao would no longer be an unattainable realm for disciples of ordinary aptitude.
Zeng Shuchang felt that Tian Buyi was getting a raw deal, yet at the same time, he hoped Tian Buyi would offer up the cultivation method. He wanted his Wind Return Peak disciples to make something of themselves, too, and hoped they would make great strides in cultivation. Torn by this contradiction, he could only keep pouring himself wine. For a while, both men fell silent, lost in their own thoughts.
The people of Big Bamboo Peak went to bed rather late.
The next day, Zhang Xiaofan was still the first to get up early and prepare breakfast. When he saw someone approaching, he hurriedly woke his fellow disciples. Song Daren and the others quickly got up and put the tables and chairs back in place. Though there were several dining halls on Heaven-Reaching Peak, including a few large ones next door, they had crowded into this one the night before for convenience. It also saved Xiaofan from having to make breakfast and then run back and forth.
The group finished breakfast under the astonished gazes of the disciples who managed the kitchen and meals on Heaven-Reaching Peak,