(Yesterday, so many people sent tips that I got excited for ages, thinking I was about to become famous. Turns out it was because of the fan title. Do the Witch Undead really suit everyone's tastes that well...?) Over all this time, millions upon millions had died in battle, and countless Battle Souls had been taken into the Investiture Book. They would all become the foundation of a future Heavenly Lord.
But Tang Changsheng had completed his task in barely more than a year...
How many Battle Souls could he have gathered in so little time?
With so little strength, how could they hold a Heavenly Lord's throne securely?
Just then, Sword Spirit spoke up. "Fellow Daoist Lu, do you remember all those fellow Daoists on the Canglan Sea?"
Lu Yuanzhen jolted. Back then, the Dragon Palace had recruited at least several dozen Yang Spirit True Persons to establish a foothold on the Canglan Sea. In truth, they had become cannon fodder for the Dragon Palace...
Lu Yuanzhen and Sword Spirit had been no different at the time...
Was Sword Spirit suggesting they go back to the Canglan Sea and poach them?
Of course! Those Yang Spirits were Rogue Cultivators with neither sects nor backing. They had only gone to the Canglan Sea because they had no other choice.
Following a Heavenly Lord like Tang Changsheng would surely be far better than eking out a precarious living on the Canglan Sea!
But if they went and brazenly poached people, the Dragon Palace would hardly take it lying down, would it?
"I've heard True Lord Tang Changsheng is on good terms with the Azure Sea True Void Palace. Now that he's to become a Heavenly Lord of the Heavenly Court, I imagine the Azure Sea True Void Palace will do him