The cave abode remained silent.
Pill Qi swirled all around, filled with danger. A trace of ugliness appeared on the Featherless Bird's face. For so many years, nothing had gone right.
It had failed to take a master!
The Heavenly Peak Sect had a sect rule: they did not accept cultivators from the Five Elements Immortal Domain. It had devoutly waited outside for a hundred years, yet still had not been allowed into the mountain.
Five hundred years ago, it had come to this Immortal Crane's cave abode to ask for blessings and had obtained an immortal pill...
It had eaten it!
The result was as if misfortune had wrapped itself around it. Thunderbolts often chopped down while it walked, and it constantly encountered fierce astral winds while flying. It was plainly afflicted by some evil art.
The Featherless Bird had once asked seniors on the Jade Bamboo Continent. They had merely laughed and said, "Featherless Bird, he who tied the bell must untie it. Go find that Immortal Crane."
From then on.
Their grudge had been forged.
The Featherless Bird believed the Immortal Crane's immortal pill was counterfeit. It had washed away the blessings and fortune the Dao Ancestor had bestowed upon it, causing everything to go wrong. It had to compensate it.
The Immortal Crane could only sneer. It had never heard anyone claim there was a problem with its immortal pills. This bird was ruining its reputation.
Yet neither of them knew that their reputations had long spread far and wide. They could be called the Three Harms of the Five Elements Immortal Domain...
Obscure Pill Celestial Venerable, Old Immortal Crane.
Begging Celestial Venerable, Featherless Bird.
Cave-Digging Celestial Venerable, Earth Fatty.
One was an Immortal Crane that always called itself an immortal pill. Since childhood, it