"Hehe..." Wen Jie smiled faintly. "Fellow Daoist Li, don't be jealous. This is fate! Although Chan He Sect encountered Senior Zhang Xiaohua, they had eyes yet failed to recognize jade inlaid with gold, and did not understand the importance of this Spiritual Root selection technique. More importantly, although they are within our Dao Alliance, they cannot directly attend the Alliance Meeting. Thus, they could only borrow Fellow Daoist Xian Xiaozhi's hand to offer up this Spiritual Root selection technique. As the ancients said, 'Thoroughbred horses are common, but Bole is not.' Is that not precisely the principle?"
"Tch..." Li Pan refrained from openly mocking him out of consideration for Wen Jie's status as Immortal Alliance Leader. He merely looked at Xian Xiaozhi and curled his lips in obvious disdain.
As everyone discussed the matter, Wen Jie suddenly felt the branch beneath him tremble. He hurriedly stood up and saw a ripple abruptly emerge where the branch joined the trunk. The ripple spread outward like ripples on water, and the outline of a doorway gradually appeared at the edge of the branch.
With a soft swish, Huang Xu emerged from the doorway, a trace of excitement on his somewhat terrified face.
Just as True Person Ji Yan had anticipated, when Huang Xu and Yue Kong returned to the Teleportation Array, Dao Alliance disciples had already spread throughout the vicinity and sealed off the surroundings. How could Huang Xu miss the chance to claim credit before Xian Xiaozhi, perhaps even to get close to him? He and Yue Kong found a quiet spot, chatting idly as they waited for the Alliance Meeting to end. Several more days passed in that wait. Huang Xu did not seem impatient. Just as the two of them were speaking vaguely and mysteriously about amusing cultivation tales