Harvesting an Immortal's Cave Abode

Sacred Venerable Yunpeng at least knew some of the background, so even though he was shocked, he could barely accept it. But the True Immortal bigwigs present had genuinely been caught completely off guard by this outcome, each of them wearing an expression of utter disbelief.

"Well done, Heavenly Auspice Jiang Clan. You've hidden yourselves deeply indeed."

Immortal Lord Vastness of the Gui Clan flew into a rage on the spot, his face as black as the bottom of a pot.

For the sake of this immortal's cave abode, for the sake of winning the Four-Way Tournament, their Tianxing Gui Clan had spent no small amount of effort and family reserves. Not only had they carefully selected Gui Yongming, a clansman exceptional in both cultivation and aptitude, but they had also drawn upon their family foundation to raise his bloodline aptitude to peerless Grade A.

Originally, they had believed that even if he faced Heavenly Auspice Si Clan's contestant, their chances of victory would be fifty-fifty. Yet who could have imagined that Gui Yongming would lose in the very first round to the unremarkable Jiang Muxian, sending all that costly investment and painstaking effort down the drain?

How could that not infuriate him?

"Immortal Lord Vastness." Immortal Lord Haoran, however, was in high spirits at the moment. He laughed aloud and reminded him, "You are an Immortal Lord of status and standing. A wager is a wager—accept your loss, and do not disgrace the Saint Clan."

"Hmph!"

Immortal Lord Vastness's expression shifted between light and dark several times, but in the end, he could find no grounds to lash out.

The sole thing that offered him a slight measure of comfort was that if their Tianxing Gui Clan could not obtain this immortal's cave abode relic, then their longtime enemy,