"I hope you can help me find a youngster with a gift for the formation arts, Senior, and bring him here. Even if I die, I don't want all these years of painstaking work to be lost," Zhu Fancheng said.
"No. If you're teaching a disciple, who will unravel the formation seal here?" Huo Lian refused without hesitation.
If it concerned unraveling the formation seal, he would agree.
But if it interfered with that task, how could he agree?
"Senior Huo, rest assured, I won't let it delay my study of the formation," Zhu Fancheng said. "This is my last request. If you can't grant it, I won't have any desire to stay here. I might as well die now."
"Are you threatening me?" Huo Lian stared at Zhu Fancheng, his expression cold.
Zhu Fancheng said nothing. Without the slightest evasion, he stared straight into Huo Lian's eyes.
"Fine. I'll find a youngster for you," Huo Lian said after a long while.
He realized that Zhu Fancheng was adamant about this. If he refused, Zhu Fancheng might really stop helping him.
"Actually, Huang Xiao is still the one I favor," Zhu Fancheng said, breathing a sigh of relief upon hearing Huo Lian agree.
For people like them, finding a disciple to their liking was too difficult.
After all their picking and choosing, they still had not found a suitable one.
Zhu Fancheng knew that Huang Xiao had some accomplishments in the formation arts. At least among the younger generation, he was quite formidable.
"Huang Xiao has no time to stay here and learn your formation arts," Huo Lian said coldly.
If there had been time, Huo Lian might have let Huang Xiao stay here. After all, mastering formations was a good thing.
He had to admit that, in the formation