When Will Northbound and Southbound Journeys Ever End

After arranging all this, Xing Ming entered cultivation. Among the sect affairs he had instructed Zhu Luomu to handle was the matter of notifying him once Zhang Ming emerged from seclusion.

But as the years passed and time flew by, Zhu Luomu gradually forgot about it almost entirely.

Only when he occasionally needed to arrange for newly promoted core disciples to enter the core area would he remember that person named Zhang Ming, who had once left him both startled and frightened.

Yet entangled in the sect's countless trivial affairs, he would soon cast the man to the back of his mind again.

Moreover, Zhang Ming had remained in seclusion without ever emerging, so naturally he had not collected even a single spirit stone from Falling Star Valley. There was thus no record of him in the books. If Zhu Luomu could forget him, there was even less reason for anyone else to remember.

In the seventeenth year of Li Yan's seclusion, a female disciple in the Sacred Demon Palace, eighty thousand li away, successfully condensed her Golden Core.

For a cultivator to form a core was no small matter for any sect.

But in a place like Sacred Demon City, where cultivators from all under heaven gathered, Golden Core Realm cultivators filled the streets and Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators covered the ground, no one would find it particularly astonishing even if they heard the news.

Yet for certain higher-ups within the Sacred Demon Palace, the matter caused no small stir, though the news was confined to only a few of the palace's foremost cultivators.

This female disciple had been brought by two Supreme Elders into the Sacred Demon Palace's sacred inheritance realm to break through. All heavenly phenomena had been concealed, and no one saw the process of her