The Life Tablets were simple to make, taking only a few breaths.
Once finished, the four natal Life Tablets were placed in Su Nian's cultivation grounds.
"All right, go about your business..." Su Nian swept his wide sleeve. "He Pingsheng, stay behind. I'm taking you to see your grandmaster!"
"Oh!" He Pingsheng obediently stayed where he was.
Only after the other senior brothers and sisters had left did his master, Su Nian, say, "You really are something, brat. Whatever the case, reaching the eighth layer in such a short time is worth celebrating!"
"Come with me. We'll go sponge off your grandmaster and fleece her of a few goodies!"
"Come on, come on..."
Su Nian took He Pingsheng's hand and shot into the sky with a whoosh. They swept past seven or eight peaks of varying sizes within the sect before finally reaching a tall peak at the very back.
Only a single black great hall stood atop that peak.
On either side of the great hall stood a side hall.
Just as He Pingsheng and Su Nian landed at the entrance, a powerful fluctuation of energy turned into a ripple and burst out of the black great hall before them.
In an instant, more than a dozen formations sprang up around the great hall.
Shimmering barriers of various colors rose in quick succession.
With a wave of Su Nian's hand, a powerful shield of energy formed in front of them.
Even so, that powerful ripple pushed them back several dozen feet.
"Holy shit..." Su Nian said. "So strong... This seems to be the energy fluctuation from a breakthrough to Earth Immortal!"
"How strange. Since when was someone in the sect breaking through?"
"Who is it?"
Before master and disciple could approach the side hall, a figure in a scarlet