The cave abode remained deathly silent.
Pill qi swirled all around, brimming with danger. An ugly look inevitably appeared on Hairless Bird's face. For years now, nothing had gone right for it.
Its attempt to take a master had failed!
The Sky-Piercing Sect had a sect rule: they did not accept cultivators from the Five Aggregates Immortal Domain. It had devoutly waited outside for a hundred years, yet still had not been allowed up the mountain.
Five hundred years ago, it had come to this immortal crane's cave abode to beg for blessings and fortune, and had obtained an immortal pill...
It had eaten it!
The result was as if misfortune had wrapped itself around it. Lightning often struck from nowhere when it walked, and it constantly encountered fierce astral winds while flying. One look was enough to tell it had been cursed.
Hairless Bird had once asked a senior from Jade Bamboo Continent about it, only for the other party to laugh and say, "Hairless Bird, whoever tied the bell must untie it. Go find that immortal crane."
From then on.
The grudge between them had been formed.
Hairless Bird believed the immortal crane's pill was counterfeit. It had washed away the blessed fortune bestowed upon it by the Dao Ancestor, causing everything to go wrong for it. The crane had to compensate it.
The immortal crane could only sneer. It had never heard anyone say there was a problem with its immortal pills. This bird was ruining its reputation.
Yet neither of them knew that they had long since become infamous, known as the Three Calamities of the Five Aggregates Immortal Domain...
Pill-Haze Heavenly Venerable, the old immortal crane.
Begging Heavenly Venerable, Hairless Bird.
Burrowing Heavenly Venerable, Earth Fatty.
One was an immortal crane that constantly called