"Greetings, Daoist Master." Chen Cuo rose and bowed.
"I came to invite you to cultivate on Great Hua Mountain, Lord," Jiezhuzi said. "Our Cloudsky Sect carries on the Jade Purity Lineage. It has been passed down since the Three Ancient Eras, a history of two thousand years. We may have no fewer divine arts and secret techniques than Kunlun, but we certainly cannot match its numbers."
At this, he glanced at the two Kunlun Daoists. "But so long as you do not stray from the teachings or help a tyrant commit evil, you may join the Great Hua Mountain lineage and seek the Dao freely. Nor will you need to destroy your foundation and start cultivating again another day."
Qiuyuzi had looked as though he wanted to speak ever since Jiezhuzi arrived. Hearing this, however, he merely sighed. Then something occurred to him, and he finally said, "Senior Brother, from the sound of it, you've been here for quite some time."
"Anything said or done in this world leaves traces. You made no effort to erase yours, so of course I learned of it. What does that have to do with when I arrived?" Jiezhuzi smiled faintly. "Besides, without Hanyanzi's consent, how could I have entered this Immortal Abode without a sound?"
Qiuyuzi froze and looked at his senior brother.
Hanyanzi's expression remained unchanged. "How the Marquis of Linru County chooses is ultimately his own affair. Could Kunlun truly lack even that much breadth of mind? Besides, gifted as he is, he has not yet reached the point where Kunlun must hide him away from everyone. However..."
He paused. Ignoring Qiuyuzi's anxious look, he turned to Jiezhuzi and said evenly, "Junior Brother, you are skilled at divination. You must know that a Tribulation will come in ten years."
"Indeed. That