Entering the Sect

"His greatest desire is very likely to climb back up and become a venerable of the Yedie River Holy Land!"

"For someone to rise, someone else must fall!"

"There's no way to determine the ages of the Holy Land's venerables, but he's already very old. It would be hard for him to wait long for one of them to pass away!"

"Quite right!"

"My people checked the records. He once served the second Chanyu of our imperial family, so he's at least close to a hundred years old!"

"No wonder he wants to climb higher!"

After Hongku summoned Wu Chao, Wu Chao and Jin Chang held one last discussion.

"A hundred years is a ripe old age for a great cultivator of the Divine Ability Realm. If he wants to keep living, he needs to enter the Sole Self Realm to be sure of living past a hundred and twenty," Jin Chang said. "Without a special fortuitous opportunity, a Divine Ability Realm cultivator like him can only advance by spending years being cleansed in a place rich in Spiritual Qi!"

"But his position in the Yedie River Holy Land is already the best he can attain among the mages," Wu Chao said.

"So he needs to obtain a better place," Jin Chang said.

"In other words, we might have the support of a venerable?"

After a brief, coolheaded analysis, Wu Chao quickly grasped the crucial point.

Hongku wanted to climb up, but no venerable would be willing to step down. There was an irreconcilable conflict between them.

Wu Chao suddenly recalled Zou Bugui's remark about cultivation "eating people," and he could not help feeling a little dazed.

After going around in a great circle and doubling back again and again, he found that one evil consequence after another was very