The intelligence Li Ping had read concerned that descendant of the Pill Sage.
The Pill Sage had been skilled at nurturing his health and had taken lifespan-extending pills. His lifespan had exceeded that of ordinary Nascent Soul Cultivators, and he had lived for more than thirteen hundred years.
It was easy to imagine how enormous the Xu Household he had founded had become over those long years.
With a fourth-tier pill refiner at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage backing them, the Xu Household's cultivators had access to considerable resources. They had even produced more than a dozen Core Formation Cultivators.
However, Core Formation Cultivators had lifespans of only five hundred years, less than half the Pill Sage's. Most had therefore died before he passed away, leaving only five surviving Core Formation Cultivators in the Xu Household.
The report also made special note of one outstanding descendant of Sage Xu. Possessing a variant spiritual root, he had been favored by Sage Xu and groomed as a future Nascent Soul Cultivator. Unfortunately, while traveling during the Foundation Establishment Realm, he had been bewitched by a demonic temptress and inadvertently become entangled in a Demonic Path conspiracy.
After the conspiracy was exposed, Sage Xu had flown into a rage and expelled this descendant from the Xu Household. The descendant had subsequently become a rogue cultivator and vanished without a trace from Great Zhou, his fate unknown.
It was this outstanding descendant of Sage Xu who had set Li Ping thinking.
After a moment's hesitation, he turned his hand over and retrieved an antique purple token from his Storage Bag. Exquisite, mysterious patterns covered its edges, and characters were engraved on both its front and back.
The character on the front read "Xu," while those on the back read "Heavenly Thunder"!
Comparing the token