Some of what Tong Mingshan said was plain truth. Twenty years, lived day by day, was no short stretch. After losing its cultivation resources, the Bright Mountain Sect had only managed to stay together this long thanks to Young Master Nan's efforts.
The Chief had been imprisoned, and the Second-in-Command had vanished without a trace. The cultivation resources they had consumed during that time were no small sum; the expenditure had been enormous.
Two years earlier, An Wuzhi's cultivation had already broken through to the upper completion realm of the Earth Immortal realm. Tong Mingshan and Zhu Xiangxin were not far from that breakthrough either. Bolstered by the power of the many divine fires within them, all three had a chance of reaching the Heavenly Immortal realm within a hundred years.
This was also a secret the three kept to themselves. Once word spread that they had absorbed ten or twenty divine fires, trouble was sure to follow.
As for the other members of the Bright Mountain Sect, aside from Duan Xiangmei, whose starting point had been lower and whose cultivation talent was rather ordinary, everyone had broken through to the Human Immortal realm over those twenty years with the support of plentiful cultivation resources.
Young Master Nan had provided all those abundant resources. He really had supplied them with as much as they needed for cultivation.
In saying all this, Tong Mingshan was also speaking up for Young Master Nan, both openly and between the lines. It all came back to Young Master Nan helping the East Victory Royal Court capture Shi Chun back then. He was hinting that Young Master Nan had not wanted to do it either, but had been left with no choice.
Of course, on the whole, Tong Mingshan still leaned toward Shi Chun. He