Night fell as eight seaships sailed toward Willow Mountain Islet.
Old Man Baiyun accompanied a young man in black.
The young man stood tall and straight, a crimson pearl floating at his side.
The old man said, "Willow Mountain Islet was excavated from beneath the water fifty years ago. Since it possessed a willow-tree spirit root, it was named Willow Mountain. This place counts as neutral ground among the surrounding Cloud Cities, and few people usually come here. Since they chose this place, they must have thought it through carefully."
Wuma Dan slowly nodded.
He came from the Mystic Jade Waters, from Wuma Spirit Palace.
Nascent Soul patriarch Wuma Bo had attained Soul Formation three hundred years ago and was currently preparing for the Thunder Tribulation.
To invite cultivators from Wuma Spirit Palace to act, the Lu Family had deliberately exaggerated their losses and mentioned that the map to the Heaven-Stealing Secret Cache they had prepared for Patriarch Wuma had been stolen.
As for the Heaven-Stealing Secret Cache, although Tou Ling'er and the other parties involved knew that the thing had long since vanished—
To outsiders, it remained an immense temptation.
The treasures gathered by the Seven Great Bandit Chiefs over a thousand years—who would not want them?
As for why the Seven Great Bandit Chiefs had not retrieved them themselves—
Two explanations circulated outside.
First, there were seven keys to open the secret vault. The Seven Great Bandit Chiefs had now gone their separate ways, so there was no way to open it.
Second, the Three Heroes had sealed the cache, and only after the Seven Bandits turned over a new leaf could they retrieve it.
Some cultivators of profound attainment relied on their divine powers and believed they could force open the secret vault, so they continued pursuing