Sandalwood incense curled through the quiet cultivation room, filling it with fragrance.
The young Xing Wu looked at Celestial Master Xun with a trace of fear. Mustering his courage, he tentatively added, "Immortal Master, tom... tomorrow, I'm willing to enter Xingshan. However difficult or dangerous the road ahead, I'll do everything I can to complete the Heavenly Dao's assignment, perfect my blood mark, and offer it to the Immortal Wave Sect. But... the sect master promised me before that if I agreed to enter Xingshan, he would release my little brother. About that...?"
Although Immortal Master Xun belonged to the generation of Sect Master Wu Chen's disciples and had yet to join the sect's Elder Pavilion, he enjoyed considerable prestige within the sect and was also known by the elegant title of "Sect Strategist." Whenever something important happened in the sect, he would join the senior elders in their deliberations.
This amply demonstrated that Immortal Master Xun was an extremely clever man. More importantly, he had considerable emotional intelligence, because deliberations were never really about issues, but people. What did the elders want to hear? What did the sect master want to hear? What could he say that would offend no one while still allowing him to stand out? The wisdom required for all this... was itself a kind of "Dao."
After the Emperor's Tomb in Xingshan opened its prefecture, someone else had snatched the Immortal Wave Sect's Great Emperor's Opportunity. For the sect, this was certainly a "headache," but for him personally, it was an opportunity-an opportunity to enter the Elder Pavilion, cultivate in the Ancestral Land, and study the sect's core cultivation classics.
Naturally, he would not let these opportunities slip away. That was why he had recently shown such enthusiasm and dedication in targeting Ren Ye, the