After hearing the words, "Along the long road of cultivation, a mortal bone seeks an immortal destiny," Xu Taiping was certain that the old Daoist before him was the very man who had given his grandfather the Spirit Bone Pill and Earth Treasury Fruit all those years ago.
Xu Taiping cupped his fists toward the old Daoist with utmost solemnity.
"Thank you for that Spirit Bone Pill back then."
Without that Spirit Bone Pill, Xu Taiping would never have had any chance of setting foot on the path to immortality.
Hearing this, the old Daoist spoke with a look of deep emotion.
"That Spirit Bone Pill was indeed originally meant for your grandfather, but through a series of coincidences, by the time it reached his hands, he was already past the age for taking it."
"Under normal circumstances, I should have taken it back, but I was being hunted by shadows all that time and kept being unable to make the trip."
"By the time I returned to Erniu Village, all I found was your grandfather's Seed Burning, along with the legend of you ascending on a crane with an immortal."
Hearing this, Xu Taiping wondered curiously to himself:
If that Spirit Bone Pill had arrived on time, what would things have looked like?
Fairy Lingyue, meanwhile, seemed to remember something, and her eyes immediately lit up.
"You... could you... could you be the Gray-Robed Daoist who cleaved the Sumeru Realm apart with a single sword stroke when the Great Void Calamity devoured it, allowing many of its legacies to survive?!"
Although the Sumeru Realm had long since become ruins Beyond the Domain, many of its legacies had survived in Shangqing, all because of that single sword stroke.
He was called the Gray-Robed Daoist because even Fairy Lingyue's master had