"He Pingsheng..."
"The Grand Supreme Elder and I are coming in!"
"Have you finished comprehending the sword?"
Su Nian did not blindly walk straight into He Pingsheng's Daoist Grounds. Instead, he called out several times from within the formation first.
Although He Pingsheng had been comprehending Sword Intent just now, he had not been entirely unaware of what was happening outside.
At the very least, he knew Su Nian had been standing guard for him.
"Yes..." He Pingsheng personally emerged from the Great Hall, opened the doors and the formation, and cupped his hands. "Master, Grand Supreme Elder, this disciple pays his respects!"
"This disciple has been awaiting your honored arrival. Please come in!"
The three entered the Great Hall one after another.
Patriarch Red Lotus swept her gaze around the Great Hall and said, "Your Daoist Grounds are rather spartan!"
He Pingsheng said, "This disciple needs little in the way of external things to cultivate. Keeping things simple is enough!"
"Exactly!" Red Lotus nodded in wholehearted agreement. "That is precisely how one should cultivate immortality and refine the Dao!"
"To think that you, at merely the first layer..." Patriarch Red Lotus stopped halfway through her sentence, her deliberately composed expression instantly giving way to utter astonishment again.
She had originally meant to say that she had never expected him to comprehend Sword Intent with merely first-layer cultivation.
But when she casually swept her Divine Sense over He Pingsheng, she suddenly discovered that his cultivation had already reached the fifth layer of the Human Immortal Stage.
"You... you, you, you, you..."
Facing He Pingsheng, Patriarch Red Lotus became a stammerer too. She drew a great breath. "The fifth layer?"
"What?" Su Nian shuddered as well. "Impossible..."
"How could you be at the fifth layer of the Human Immortal Stage?"
"Weren't