Xu Changxing did not immediately answer Daoist Wuchen's question. Instead, he asked:
"Following your approach, Senior, how much time could you buy me?"
Daoist Wuchen pondered briefly before saying, "From what I know of the Myriad Immortals Alliance, they will arrive within ten breaths of receiving a distress signal.
"If Muling and I do everything we can to hold them back, we can buy you another twenty breaths or so, Sect Master.
"In other words, you would need to kill a Half-Step Immortal Venerable within thirty breaths!"
These words made the expressions of all the other elders in the hall change.
Everyone present was among the Immortal Realm's most powerful cultivators, and they all knew how terrifying a Half-Step Immortal Venerable was.
Without an Immortal Venerable taking action, a Half-Step Immortal Venerable was already the mightiest existence in the Immortal Realm.
Killing such a powerhouse was already an impossible task, let alone doing so within thirty breaths.
Before Xu Changxing could answer, the relatively forthright High Person Sanshou spoke up:
"You actually expect the Sect Master to kill a Half-Step Immortal Venerable in a mere thirty breaths?
"Wuchen, have you schemed so much that you've schemed your own brains rotten?"
Even Immortal Lord Leyou, who seldom spoke, chimed in:
"Exactly. Though this would keep the Myriad Immortals Alliance from noticing, it puts far too much pressure on the Sect Master.
"How could anyone kill a Half-Step Immortal Venerable in just thirty breaths?"
After speaking, Leyou did not forget to turn and glance at Immortal Lord Muling, seemingly hoping that their sect's own Half-Step Immortal Venerable would offer his opinion.
Yet Muling merely raised his eyebrows slightly without speaking.
After all, he had only just returned and was unfamiliar with this new Sect Master.
He did not want to join their