"Don't slander the Sacred Lord and the Sacred Mountain here..."
The one who challenged them was an old man.
His cultivation was considerable; he had already reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment Realm.
He was only one step away from Core Formation.
The old man had expected his words to draw support from everyone, but to his utter surprise, not a single person in the tea house agreed with him.
A female cultivator smiled faintly and said, "Fellow Daoist, have you been spending too much time in seclusion lately?"
"Well..."
The old man looked puzzled. "Yes, I have been in seclusion for a while recently. Why do you ask, Fellow Daoist?"
Someone said, "The Sacred Mountain isn't all it's cracked up to be!"
"Exactly!" another person chimed in. "Plenty of people are waiting for an answer from the Sacred Mountain now, but it can't even answer the most basic questions!"
"What questions?" the old man asked.
The woman said, "Someone dug up historical records from the Nine Kingdoms and proved that the two patriarchs, He Asks and He Thinks, have lived for at least twenty-seven hundred years!"
"As you all know, even cultivators at the Spirit Transformation Stage can only live for two thousand years at most!"
"So how have those two managed to live so long?"
"Six years ago, quite a few Spirit Transformation cultivators from across the world went up the Sacred Mountain together to demand an explanation!"
"But the Sacred Lord never gave them a convincing reason!"
"That's right!" a middle-aged man said. "Someone said the Sacred Lord set up a great formation on the Sacred Mountain called the Divine Tree Formation of Creation Seizure and Essence Condensation into Longevity, specifically to absorb other people's fortune and extend his own lifespan!"
"All those geniuses who have