Xu Changxing shook his head. "This ascension is different from the last.
"I'm afraid I'll need your help this time, senior brother."
Li Changge paused slightly at his words. "What can I help you with?"
Xu Changxing explained, "Someone blocked this world's path to ascension with an immortal stone.
"To break open that path, we first have to subdue a sword spirit.
"That sword spirit is quite troublesome.
"It would be rather difficult for me to subdue him on my own.
"I want to set up a Grand Formation.
"But this Grand Formation still needs a sword cultivator to serve as its core."
Li Changge said without hesitation, "As long as I can help, just say the word."
Xu Changxing smiled. "This will take a hundred years of preparation. There's no rush.
"Break through your current realm first, senior brother."
Li Changge nodded. "That works."
In just a few simple exchanges, the two settled the matter.
Afterward, Xu Changxing asked about the Setting Sun Sect.
According to Li Changge, the Setting Sun Sect was still the foremost sword cultivation sect in the Setting Sun Sect.
Over the past few decades, however, many body cultivators who specialized in qi and blood had appeared within the Setting Sun Sect, making the atmosphere there somewhat strange.
The leader of these qi and blood martial artists was Liu Chenyu, the master who had taught them both.
Although Liu Chenyu's talent for Dao cultivation was mediocre, he was quite gifted in the path of qi and blood.
In just a few short decades, he had relied on the pills Xu Changxing left behind to break through to the inner landscape, becoming a top-tier cultivator comparable to one at Spirit Transformation.
But martial cultivation was easy to learn and difficult to master. Breaking through the world's