"By the way, Second Senior Brother, what official business brought you back to Xi Kingdom?" Cui Hongshen asked again. "More than a month ago, over fifty thousand more disciples of our Thunder Control Sect headed to Xuntian City under True Person Miyou and True Person Kuangtian. If nothing unexpected happens, the remaining disciples in Xuntian City should return before the new year! Yet Second Senior Brother is here at this time..."
"Huh? True Person Miyou?" Xiao Hua was startled. "The Sect Leader did not go?"
"The Sect Leader has entered seclusion and is preparing to break through to the late Nascent Soul stage!" A trace of fervor flashed through Cui Hongshen's eyes. "Once the Sect Leader emerges from seclusion, our Thunder Control Sect will have a Sect Leader at the late Nascent Soul stage as well, able to stand shoulder to shoulder with sects like the Shanghua Sect!"
"Oh, so that was it!" Xiao Hua nodded slightly, naturally recalling the Lightning Devouring Bead he had occasionally thought of before. Then he asked, "By the way, who is this True Person Kuangtian? Which elder has advanced to Nascent Soul?"
"This person... how could others not know, yet Senior Brother not know?" Cui Hongshen naturally recalled his own ignorance when he had first reached the Foundation Establishment stage, and smiled bitterly. "He is precisely Senior Brother's old acquaintance from Dry Thunder Palace!"
"Dry Thunder Palace? Oh, I understand now!" Xiao Hua smiled. Kuangtian, Qian Tian—were they not both 'Tian'? Even after Qian Tian formed Nascent Soul, he had still taken 'Tian' as his Daoist title! Truly arrogant!
But immediately afterward, Xiao Hua asked curiously, "True Person Kuangtian went to Xuntian City, so what about that brat Qian Diheng?"
"Hehe, what do you think, Senior Brother?" Dui Qimeng said with a smiling gaze,