The boy had this place now, so he would not need to worry too much about his cultivation in the future. Lu Qing thought that, this way, he would not have to worry about White Crane Boy encountering any danger. After all, the Dao Sect was less dangerous than the outside world. He might as well turn his attention back to himself.
At the same time.
The scene elsewhere was somewhat eerily strange.
"Brother Gao, what are you thinking?"
Li Tongxiao could not quite understand what Gao Yuan was thinking. Whether or not he was an introductory disciple of the Sword Lineage, did he not still need to challenge others and make a name for himself?
In Li Tongxiao's eyes, there was no need to worry over such a concern at all.
Why refrain from issuing a challenge token?
Gao Yuan shook his head indifferently, a deep darkness still lingering in his expression. "I was not thinking of anything else. I merely suddenly understood that we are no longer opponents walking the same path."
Li Tongxiao froze. "Brother Gao, what do you mean by that?"
What did it mean, not opponents walking the same path?
Li Tongxiao came from a collateral branch of the Li Clan—or at least, that was what he told outsiders. In truth, only he himself knew that the bloodline connection between his Li surname and the Li Clan within the Enforcement Hall had been separated by who knew how many generations.
Not to mention the divide between Immortals and mortals, and the divide of realms.
He had not been born in the Nine Heavens Realm. Rather, he came from a Minor Realm under the control of the Profound Heaven Dao Sect. In that Minor Realm, a cultivator of the Li Clan had once left behind a