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The Tower Spirit nodded when it heard that. "You have a point, but you didn't have to become his disciple... If nothing else, Wushan would have done. Don't you study the sword? Isn't he from the Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect? He'd be a perfect fit."

"My master has treated me very well. Please don't slander him like that, Your Majesty." Wen Xu lowered his eyes. "Besides, Mist Mountain God Venerable doesn't cultivate the sword path..."

The Tower Spirit bristled again. "What? Even that softhearted Wushan reached the Body Integration Realm? Are Body Integration Divine Venerables as common as cabbages in the Cultivation Realm now?"

It was all because it only ever caught low-level cultivators to play with. It knew nothing about these major happenings in the Cultivation Realm!

"And how did he end up giving up the sword? Can someone forget his roots all the way into the Body Integration Realm?"

From the way the Tower Spirit spoke of the three Divine Venerables, Wen Xu could tell it had been close to his master and the others back then. More precisely, it had been closest to Jun Zhaoying, then Wushan, and least close to his master. The Tower Spirit also kept calling his master a Half-Dragon. Perhaps it didn't know his master had transformed into a dragon.

"I've only been in the Cultivation Realm for a little over six years. I truly don't know much about these secrets."

The Tower Spirit was beside itself. If Cheng Wei appeared before it now, it would charge over and smack that dragon's head a couple of times. That would teach them not to visit for so long! It hadn't appeared in the Cultivation Realm for eighty years, and none of them had thought to check on it!

He had time to take a disciple