Wu Chao's Plan

Wu Chao had always been a straightforward man. When he said he needed seven days in secluded cultivation, he meant seven days.

Zhang Qian's work did not go quite so smoothly. It was not that Zhang Qian was inefficient, but that he needed others to cooperate.

People shunned Zhang Qian's mission to the Xiong State.

As a result, Zhang Qian had some difficulty gathering enough people for his party. Everyone treated him like a plague god.

After more than half a month of wrangling, Zhang Qian still had not assembled his full party.

Although Wu Chao cultivated diligently, he rarely tried to row against the current.

When he lacked excellent cultivation conditions, he would certainly not spend all his time slowly honing his cultivation.

He was much like Zhang Xuezhou in that respect.

As a cultivator, Zhang Xuezhou did not spend every waking moment immersed in cultivation. Whenever he felt that further progress was difficult, he stopped.

Likewise, after committing the Yin Yang Great Joy Nine People Incantation and the Following Like a Shadow Technique to memory and making a preliminary attempt at cultivating them, Wu Chao knew what he lacked and how to sharpen his axe before chopping wood, without delaying the work.

With time on his hands, he urged Zhang Qian along every day and wandered around Chang'an City.

Once he calculated that Zhang Xuezhou should have awakened, Wu Chao paid him a visit.

He knew Zhang Xuezhou would have awakened earlier, but after waking, Zhang Xuezhou would mostly be eating and drinking to replenish his body. There was no use coming too early, so Wu Chao waited until the next day.

Rong Tianding and the others had barely stepped out of the guesthouse when Wu Chao stepped in.

"Senior brother, you look well," Zhang Xuezhou exclaimed as