Within the Main Hall of the Great Wei Treasure Palace.
Jiang Yi said softly, "Cat Master, fetch the Nine-Sprout True-Nurturing Pill True Person Shao offered and deliver it to Gu Changling for me."
Hearing this, He Shouzheng hurried to retrieve the medicine from the storeroom and handed it to Profound Mystery True Person, who was stationed on the bronze pillar at the formation's core.
"Little Jiang is buying hearts. Every inch an upper cultivator!"
Profound Mystery True Person rose with a swagger, tucked away the Red Sandalwood Box made of thousand-year spirit wood, and streaked out of the treasure palace as a rainbow toward Gen Peak's quarters. Since being promoted to true disciple, Gu Changling had repeatedly fought on behalf of Gen Peak Grotto-Heaven, earning distinguished merits in battle.
For a time, he had become a standard-bearer for the Eight Lords' Descendants in their contest against the Master-Disciple Lineage.
Whether Jiang Yi's position as Dao Child was secure depended chiefly on Patriarch Netherworld Profound's support from above.
But he also needed support from below to build up his reserves and foundations.
People like Shao Guansu and Liu Jing of Zhen Peak, Luo Xuanming from the direct line of the Eight Lords' Descendants, Separation Peak True Disciple Feng Yuan, and Kan Peak True Disciple Qu Liuer each represented different "mountaintops" and "factions" within the Xiantian Sect.
Jiang Yi had used two True Lord talismans to kill the clan elder Luo Qingya, who was at the fifth level of Foundation Establishment, killing a chicken to warn the monkeys. Yet he had chosen to pardon Shao Guansu and Liu Jing, who had offended him, and even Gu Changling, who had nearly become a great enemy obstructing his Dao. This was precisely his purpose.
They were all talented people. They all had their uses!