Xu Zhiyu's breathing suddenly quickened.
He immediately grasped the key to it.
The method the senior had suggested was somewhat underhanded, yet it struck straight at the heart of the matter!
If it succeeded, they could not only cripple their opponent's greatest asset.
They could also make him swallow his loss in silence!
A flicker of conflict crossed his face.
Xu Zhiyu had, after all, only cultivated for a short time, and his disposition was too peaceable.
But when he thought of his lineage's predicament, his gaze quickly hardened with resolve. He bowed deeply to Xu Xuan. "Senior, neither Zhiyu nor the Xu Household will ever forget your guidance!"
"It was merely some idle conversation about the properties of materials."
Xu Xuan waved a hand and picked up the unfinished Dharma artifact again, no longer looking at him.
"What you do is the Xu Household's own business."
Xu Zhiyu said no more and hurried away.
Xu Xuan watched from afar without a word.
A Foundation Establishment junior with a few tricks hardly warranted his intervention.
After Xu Zhiyu returned, he immediately sought out the clan elders who could make decisions and discussed the matter in secret.
At first, the clan elders also had their doubts.
After all, as far as they knew, Daoist Xuanchen was only at the late Qi Refining stage.
What use could his advice possibly be?
But after Xu Zhiyu explained everything, they heard the ingenuity of the method and the turn of fortune it might bring.
In the end, they gritted their teeth and decided to follow the plan.
Before that, however, they had the lineage's alchemist make a special test.
The results-
All they could say was that something so colorless and odorless was exceedingly rare.
Several days later.
As expected, the cultivators of the