After Favorability Is Maxed

282 Beautiful Jade Covered in Dust

The old man was wearing a black cloak, and the walking stick in his hand was carved into two snakes that were twisted together. The eyes of the snakes were inlaid with rubies, and their fangs were white. Their scales were shimmering, and they looked very lifelike, giving off a gloomy and cold feeling.

He raised his head slightly, revealing a pair of gray eyes that were covered by a shadow. He seemed to be blind.

However, no one present dared to think that he was blind.

This was because not only did Vast Sea Palace Master stand up after seeing the old man, the people from the other sects also had serious expressions on their faces. Even if their cultivation was low and they could not judge how strong this old man was, they could tell from the reactions of the people around them that he was definitely not an ordinary emissary from the Sea Slashing Tower.

“That is… Double Serpent Staff?” There were soft exclamations from the crowd, which were followed by an uproar and discussion.

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Black cloak, white eyes, Double Serpent Staff, and the scales on his hand… Could it be the Xu Su of the 28 Lunar Mansions of the Sea Slashing Tower?”

“Xu Su of the Black Tortoise Division? Really? It’s said that his eyes are connected to the earth vein of the Heavenly Pivot, and it just so happens that one’s magical power is to see the world, while the other’s is to read all human emotions. If you have the two of them, you’ll know everything that happened in the past 500 years.”

“That infamous and difficult-to-find map of the Tianshu earth vein, could it be…

“That’s right. He’s the one who contributed the most to the creation of this map. This is a great merit.”

The Messenger of the Sea Slashing Tower, Xu Su, Guihuan Python… All these titles pieced together to form a legendary Guihuan Elder. However, those who did not know these secrets only had one direct impression of him.

The Crossing Calamity stage!

In the entire Shangyang, there was only a handful of these supreme beings!

Vast Sea Palace Master suppressed his injuries with great difficulty and muttered, “Guihuan Elder… Wasn’t he stuck at the peak of the Form Synthesis stage for thousands of years? Why did he suddenly break through?”

There were only a few cultivators at the Crossing Calamity stage in this world, but there were a lot of cultivators at the Form Synthesis stage. There were at least 100 of them, and most of them were at the sixth level or below. If the cultivators at the Form Synthesis stage were counted, the figures would be like a long-necked bottle.

These cultivators before the sixth level of Form Synthesis stage were still moving around. Some died at the end of their lifespans, and some rose from the Void Refinement stage. However, the cultivators after the sixth level of Form Synthesis stage were basically fixed.

The three elders who had been chasing after Ling Hua, or Wu Tianzong and the other demonic sect Guardians, were all old people who had been in their own sects for a long time. They were the group stuck in the middle.

The progress in this stage was as slow as a snail. Sometimes, after hundreds of years of closed-door cultivation, one would still come out in the same way. The further one went, the harder it was to make a breakthrough. Therefore, it was generally acknowledged that there was no hope for the Guihuan Elder to make a breakthrough in the peak of the Form Synthesis stage after thousands of years.

‘Young talents’ like the Vast Sea Palace Master, who had reached the eighth level of the Form Synthesis stage at the age of 2,000, were considered geniuses.

Ling Hua was at the sixth level of the Form Synthesis stage at the age of 300. She was a genius among geniuses, which was hard to come by even in a thousand years. Vast Sea Palace Master was about to break through to the Form Synthesis stage at the age of 300, but it took him 1,700 years to reach to rise from the first to the eighth level of the Form Synthesis stage. It was evident how difficult it was to cultivate in the later stage.

It was a different story for people like Liu Yuan who cheated. If word got out that he had only been cultivating for a few months, he would definitely be captured and sliced up.

Vast Sea Palace Master pondered for a moment and then understood. Either the Dao master of the Sea Slashing Tower had given him some advice, or the Guihuan Elder had a fortuitous encounter.

In comparison, the latter was more likely.

However, this question was not important at the moment. What was important was that the Sea Slashing Tower had sent someone to the Jade Mirage Sect at the right time. Could it be that the Sea Slashing Tower had finally lost their patience with the demonic sect’s rampant behavior and decided to help the Central Plains solve this great problem?

Vast Sea Palace Master was overjoyed. The Sea Slashing Tower and the Jade Mirage Sect were on the same front line. However, the two of them split the work. The Sea Slashing Tower would suppress the Demonic Abyss at the front line, while the Jade Mirage Sect would maintain stability in the Central Plains and kill some fish that escaped the net like the Eight-armed Heavenly Demon and He Qingmeng.

Now that the Jade Mirage was in a state of internal and external difficulties, the Sea Slashing Tower had sent an emissary. It was normal for the Vast Sea Palace Master’s first reaction to think that they had come to help.

Vast Sea Palace Master looked at his Sect Master Sheng’e, who was healing his disciple. He then walked forward and cupped his hands. “Greetings, Senior Xu Su. I didn’t know senior was coming and didn’t welcome you. It’s not convenient for my Sect’s Master to come, so I’m the Palace Master of the Vast Sea Palace. I’ll welcome you on your behalf, and I hope Senior can understand.”

The old man raised his head and ‘looked’ at him. From under the cloak came a faint, old voice, “It’s fine. I came in a hurry and didn’t inform you.”

Vast Sea Palace Master saw that his tone was calm and soothing, and he became even more certain. He asked, “I wonder if Senior has come on the Dao Master’s orders?”

“Indeed, it’s about Ling Hua,” Guihuan Elder said.

As soon as he said that, the people from the other sects looked at each other. Vast Sea Palace Master’s heart skipped a beat as he had a bad feeling.

If it was because of the matter of the demonic sect or the reappearance of the demonic race, why would they specifically bring up Ling Hua? It could be seen that they were targeting Ling Hua.

Guihuan Elder walked forward slowly with his walking stick and said, “This is official business, but there is a private matter that I need to discuss with your Sect Master.”

Sheng’e opened his eyes and looked in their direction. He retracted his palm and his brows were still tightly knitted. His face was full of worry. He turned around and looked at Ling Yu, who had just woken up. He sighed and said, “Little Girl, why do you have to do this…”

If the person who was injured by the poison was Vast Sea Palace Master, he would have been able to force the poison out himself. However, the process was extremely painful and would damage his foundation. It would not have been life-threatening.

However, Sheng’e understood his Senior Brother. He would definitely not make such a choice. Instead, he would rather seal off the entire second level in the name of ‘righteousness’.

Ling Yu also understood, so she rushed forward without hesitation.

Even if it was a cultivator of the Void Refinement Stage or even the Soul Formation stage at that time, Sheng’e would not be powerless to save them from disaster. But it was Ling Yu, and she was only at the Core Formation stage. The gap between her and Xu Xinhong was more than a thousand miles. It was like an ant and a mountain.

But it just so happened that it was Ling Yu, which allowed her to absorb all of the poisonous mist with her Core Formation cultivation, preventing the people from suffering.

It was impossible for a human to survive after absorbing the poison of so many Form Synthesis stage cultivators. Therefore, Ling Yu was not human either.

If she was a human, she might have hesitated.

However, she was a Jade Stem from the Nine Heavens. She was bathed in the essence of the sun and the moon and opened up her seven orifices and seven emotions. When she transformed into the human form, she wandered around ignorantly. She was saved from the mouth of a demon by Sheng’e and joined the Jade Mirage Sect, becoming the Fifth Junior Sister of Danqing Palace.

Jade would not be poisoned to death.

Ling Yu woke up, but her eyes were blank. The blood-colored poisonous mist gathered between her eyebrows like a mole, but it blinded her mind. It did not whittle away at her cultivation, but at her Dao.

Seeing the disaster, she showed an innocent smile and looked around curiously. “Master, there are so many people. What are they doing?”

Sheng’e’s heart ached. He knew that the spiritual power he had transferred could only delay it for a little while. When the spiritual power was exhausted, Ling Yu would turn back into the Nine Heavens Jade Stem, quiet and silent.

The kind-hearted Ling Yu who loved cute and furry things, the Ling Yu who had just gotten first place on the Singing Sword Ranking and made her first friend, would cultivate a human form again, but she would no longer be Ling Yu.