``` [After rejecting the excessive demands of the Hundred Flowers Valley sect master, you contacted other factions.]
[The responses you received either offered terms you found unsatisfactory or said they needed to consider the matter and would give you an answer later.]
[This did not surprise you. A Nascent Soul condensation treasure was involved; even a Nascent Soul-level faction needed to deliberate carefully.]
[Back on the Two-Region Battlefield, the Primordial Origin Palace had been utterly helpless against that third-tier Poison Master from the Nine Nether Domain. Only then had they offered a Nascent Soul condensation treasure as a bounty.]
[Half a month later, a figure draped in a black cloak arrived in the outer courtyard of your cave abode.]
["Fellow Daoist Azure Origin."]
[The black-cloaked figure spoke softly. You could vaguely make out that there was no physical body beneath the cloak.]
[The black-cloaked figure was Blood-Sea True Person. After you gradually sold off the Azure Origin Trade Association's holdings, he no longer needed to oversee the association, so he had begun traveling.]
["Fellow Daoist Blood Sea, it seems your travels over these years have brought you considerable gains?"]
[You looked at Blood-Sea True Person and spoke with a smile.]
[After Azure Moon True Person died, Blood-Sea True Person untied the knot in his heart and advanced by leaps and bounds along the path of ghost cultivation. He had now reached the peak of the third-tier middle stage.]
[The path of ghost cultivation placed great importance on obsession and will.]
[Blood-Sea True Person's towering hatred for Azure Moon True Person could be considered an exceptionally high-grade obsession.]
["Unfortunately, I still haven't entered the third-tier late stage. On the path of ghost cultivation, if you don't advance, you retreat..."]
[Blood-Sea True Person spoke softly. Much of his former hostility was gone,