[Successfully treated Fang Xingzhou. Reward issued: "Eight Sounds of the Heavenly Dragon".] [Successfully treated Zong Chuke. Reward issued: "Xiantian Astral Qi".] [Successfully treated Mo Xuanji. Reward issued: "Eight Swords Take Flight".]
Over the next three days.
Lu Changfeng milked the "distinguished guests" in the prison again and again, earning quite a haul of fine rewards.
Heavenly treasures, divine weapons, wondrous arts...
Unfortunately, had these come a few months earlier, he would have been beside himself with delight. Now, they had arrived a little too late, merely adding flowers to brocade. Beside the Ghost Valley School of Vertical and Horizontal Alliances' Treatise on All Under Heaven, four- and five-star rewards scarcely stirred him anymore.
Only seven-star rewards from someone of Yuan Tiangang's caliber could move him.
If Yuan Tiangang could live so long, others might well be able to as well...
Dragon-Slaying City, for instance...
Zhang Lingjun had confessed that Dragon-Slaying City possessed a divine art, the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art. Cultivated to its pinnacle, it allowed one to shed the mortal frame, forge a dragon body, traverse the void in the flesh, and extend one's lifespan for a thousand years...
That was proof enough that immortality was not beyond reach.
There had to be other seven-star masters as "valuable" as Yuan Tiangang!
Before then, he needed to grow stronger, lest he encounter one only to find himself willing but powerless.
Thus, he had to obtain the three remaining formations of the Eight Formations Diagram: [Earth-Bearing], [Tiger Wing], and [Bird Soaring]! What surprised him was that one of them was actually inside Daming Palace!
Inside the Snow Listening Tower.
Li Lingyue was helping Lu Changfeng straighten his official robes.
Despite her exalted status as a princess, she was doing a maid's work. Beside her, the actual maid,