Li Wensong's Identity

At this moment, the surroundings were calm and peaceful.

The great array that was just now flowing with magical energy has now completely lost its luster.

Li Wensong dusted off non-existent dust from his sleeves, walked up to Zhang Shundao, who was staring blankly, and wore his signature refined smile.

"Now that things are settled, I won't stay here any longer. I'm going back to help Brother Lu regain his sight." Li Wensong's clear voice echoed through the clouds.

"By the way, there seems to be some misunderstanding between you and your senior brother that hasn't been cleared up. Take this opportunity to have a good chat with your fellow disciples."

He paused, his tone becoming more profound. "After all, once everyone officially joins the Eternal Night Sect and works under the same roof, harmonious coexistence is the key to prosperity."

Zhang Shundao was filled with questions. Seeing Li Wensong turn to leave, he rushed forward and almost grabbed the other man's sleeve, urgently asking him in a whisper.

"Brother Song! Don't go! Tell me the truth first, what method did you use? My senior brother is notoriously stubborn, incorrigible, even my master said before he died that his personality was beyond saving. How... how did you transform him into this in the time it takes for an incense stick to burn?"

Li Wensong stopped and turned his head, his eyes seemingly holding the stars and the sea.

He put his index finger to his lips as a shushing gesture, then smiled mysteriously.

That smile conveyed both a profound understanding of the world and a touch of nonchalant nonchalance.

He didn't answer a word, but simply touched the ground with his toes, and his whole body transformed into a streak of blue light, instantly disappearing into the sea of clouds and vanishing into the distant horizon.

Zhang Tianshi stood in front of the temple gate, his gaze following the blue light until Li Wensong's aura completely disappeared from his perception range before he slowly withdrew his gaze.

On that originally dignified and rigid old face, a hint of relief, or perhaps a sense of having found a treasure, appeared.

He turned his head and looked at his junior brother, who had caused him no shortage of worry since childhood.

"Junior brother..." Zhang Tianshi sighed heavily, then strode forward and placed his hands heavily on Zhang Shundao's shoulders. "I was senile before and misunderstood your good intentions. You've really changed; whenever something great happens, you think of your senior brother first!"

Zhang Shundao was so startled by the slap that he shuddered, his face clearly showing disbelief. "Senior Brother, you... you're normal. What did Brother Song say to you in there? Did he drug you?"

Zhang Tianshi laughed heartily, all traces of his earlier threatening manner now gone. He pulled Zhang Shundao into the Daoist temple, exclaiming excitedly, "Bewitching drugs? No, that's the truth! It's cause and effect!"

After settling down, Zhang Tianshi's expression became extremely solemn, even carrying a kind of pilgrimage-like piety.

Zhang Tianshi lowered his voice. "I didn't believe you when you said Sect Master Lu was a master of cause and effect. Although he spoke concisely just now, I can confirm that Sect Master Lu is definitely Peak Eternal Realm expert who has mastered the Rule of Cause and Effect!"

Zhang Shundao curiously, "What did he say? And you believed him?"

Zhang Tianshi's eyes reddened slightly. "He casually mentioned a few... a few secrets I've never told anyone in my life. Even my master, when he was alive, didn't know that I had secretly gone to that forbidden place to repair the temple's fortune, leaving me with a lifelong regret."

He took a deep breath and continued, "He said that before he set off, Sect Master Lu glanced at him casually and told him all about the destiny of my Celestial Master Manor and my life story. He told me that as long as I followed the will of Heaven, led my dojo to join the Eternal Night Sect, and helped the sect become the strongest force in the Nine Directions and Ten Domains, the Eternal Night Sect could easily smooth over that regret for me."

After listening, Zhang Shundao fell completely silent.

He knew his senior brother too well; the old man was a typical repressed and brooding person, with more secrets hidden in his heart than the Daoist canon itself.

There are some things he's kept secret for over a thousand years, refusing to reveal them even if they rot in his stomach.

But on his very first visit, Li Wensong was able to pinpoint his senior brother's weaknesses and trigger his sympathies. What does this signify?

Lu Qing'an told Li Wensong about his senior brother's situation directly!

As the supreme being who controls cause and effect, he only needs to slightly pluck the threads of fate, and the secrets of all living beings in the world will be as clear as black and white in his eyes.

Thinking of this, Zhang Shundao felt both awe and a touch of sour envy.

"Brother Song is indeed the number one pawn!" he thought to himself. "He only told Brother Song about this matter of proof, and even had him come to the rescue at the crucial moment. There's no comparison between them!"

But then I realized that I really couldn't do it.

If he were to use his senior brother's secret to threaten him, his senior brother would most likely fight him to the death on the spot. But Li Wensong was able to turn this into a favorable outcome in the most elegant way.

Zhang Tianshi was in a great mood at this moment, as if he had instantly become hundreds of years younger.

He slapped Zhang Shundao on the back of the head and laughed, "Don't just stand there! You need to tell me all about the Eternal Night Sect. Especially the preferences of that Fellow Daoist Li... no, Brother Song! And the temperaments of the people around Sect Master Lu! Since we're joining, we need to get our attitudes right. From now on, I, as your senior brother, will have to take care of all the social interactions and colleague relationships for you!"

Seeing his senior brother's eagerness to build a good relationship, Zhang Shundao sighed helplessly, but also smiled.

The two walked inside arm in arm, their posture seemingly transporting them back hundreds of years to when they were still young Daoist novices at the Celestial Master Manor's Mansion.

On the other side, the Eternal Night Sect.

As the setting sun touched the mountains, it draped this mysterious sect in a thin veil of gold.

Inside the stone pavilion, Lu Qing'an sat leisurely.

Opposite him stood the peerless beauty, Xue Tianfei, who was holding a teapot in her delicate hands, pouring a cup of Spiritual Qi tea for Lu Qing'an.

Beside the stone pavilion, a Time Cultivation Tower, exuding the weight of time, stands quietly. Apart from the occasional fluctuations in time and space, everything seems unusually peaceful.

Clearly, Xiao Qingyi and the others had been taken into the tower to cultivate.

Just then, the void trembled slightly, and Li Wensong's figure drifted in.

"You're back?" Lu Qing'an picked up her teacup and glanced at him with a hint of curiosity. "You seemed to be in a hurry earlier. Did you go to take care of some personal business?"

Li Wensong stopped, bowed respectfully, and then smiled, "Brother Lu, it's not really a personal matter. I saw Zhang Shundao leave like that, so I thought I'd go help him, and also see if I could help the sect take over the Celestial Master Manor Daoist Hall and get them to join us."

Lu Qing'an paused slightly in his tea-sipping motion, raising an eyebrow and asking, "Oh? What was the result?"

"I have lived up to your expectations." Li Wensong's tone was calm, as if he had only done a trivial matter. "Zhang Tianshi is completely convinced and is probably compiling the roster right now. If nothing unexpected happens, he will lead the entire elite force of the Celestial Master Manor to formally submit to my Eternal Night Sect in the next two days."

"Oh..." Lu Qing'an seemed to think that everything was under his control, but in reality, he felt a surge of emotion.

Wensong, Wensong, isn't your work efficiency a bit too outrageous?

Most importantly, he didn't even let Li Wensong do such a thing!

Li Wensong did it all on his own initiative, and did it so perfectly!

He's a genius among geniuses!!!