“Have you found Man Xiong yet?”
Lu Ming asked Wang Defa.
After they gathered that day, they still hadn't seen Man Xiong.
So, Lu Ming had Bao Duoduo and Wang Defa search around the area.
“No,” Wang Defa shook his head.
Lu Ming's brow furrowed slightly. He didn't know if Man Xiong had gone home or if he just hadn't come out yet.
In any case, they hadn't seen him since they left.
“Great Sect Master, you don't need to worry. Senior Man is incredibly powerful; he'll be fine no matter where he is,”
Wang Defa quickly comforted him.
Lu Ming nodded. He also believed that with Man Xiong's strength, nothing should happen to him.
Lu Ming and the others rested for a while in Tiansheng City, then paid a visit to the Bandit Sect to leave some supplies behind.
At the same time, Bao Duoduo stayed behind to guard the Bandit Sect.
After all, they were considered a proper force now, so they needed a powerhouse to hold down the fort.
This would also serve as their foothold in the Central Province.
Before leaving, Lu Ming also contacted the Great Ancestor of the Danji Sect, asking him to look after the Bandit Sect if any emergencies arose.
The Great Ancestor of the Danji Sect readily agreed to Lu Ming's request!
Afterward, Lu Ming and the others set off on their journey back to the Eastern Province.
Although they still encountered many dangers along the way, because Lu Ming had already broken through to the Unity stage, their speed at running away was much faster.
Even when they ran into three Ink-Scale Flood Dragons, the beasts couldn't keep up with them.
Once they returned to the Eastern Province, they immediately sent a sound transmission talisman to contact the Grand Elder and the others.
And surprisingly, they actually got through!
And the Qingshan Sect had been found too!
Looking at the new Qingshan Sect before him, and the large blue stone at the entrance, Lu Ming was utterly speechless and helpless.
He felt as if this stone was deliberately making things difficult for him.
When he was guarding the sect, it went missing.
They had almost turned the entire Eastern Province upside down and still couldn't find it.
Yet as soon as he went out, the Grand Elder and the others found it with ease!
If this wasn't deliberately making things difficult for him, what was?
“Ah Qing, I feel like you have a problem with me?”
Lu Ming stared at the large blue stone and muttered.
Big Yellow nodded in agreement. “Exactly!”
Even Fu Chen nodded along. Back then, he had followed them to search quite a few places.
Only Wang Defa's lips twitched as he looked up at the sky.
Only he knew how wrongly accused the large blue stone was. This wasn't a natural disaster at all; it was entirely man-made!
“Ah Qing, I hope you can be a bit more reserved. Don't just run off with anyone so easily...”
Big Yellow wagged its tail and continued to chime in:
“Yeah, Ah Qing, even though we're just a stone, we're still a stone of the Qingshan Sect. We need to have some backbone!”
The man and the dog stood in front of the large blue stone, lecturing it for a full half-hour.
In the end, they summarized it in one sentence: the large blue stone must not run off with anyone so easily in the future!
“Boss, the kid won't be driven crazy, will he?”
Huo Furong looked down at Lu Ming and Big Yellow, unable to help but ask.
The Grand Elder lay on his lounge chair, replying with his eyes closed:
“There's nothing we can do about that. Who told them their fates are destined for wandering!”
Huo Furong was also speechless. What kind of bullshit fate was this?
“Have you thought of a way to save the Sect Master yet?”
Huo Furong continued to ask.
“No!” the Grand Elder replied without even raising his head.
“Take your time thinking, no rush! The Sect Master is tough; he won't die anytime soon!”
Huo Furong muttered. Then, she turned around and went back inside to refine pills.
She swore that she would definitely refine a pill that could poison the Heavenly Dao to death.
Only when Lu Ming and Big Yellow felt that the large blue stone had realized its mistake did they finally return to the sect!
But once they entered the sect, they were completely dumbfounded!
Could someone tell them what on earth had happened?
Diao San and the others' cultivation levels had actually skyrocketed like a rocket, all breaking through to the Soul Transformation stage.
Even more absurdly, his cheap brother, Mu Linsen, had actually broken through to the Unity stage.
And by the looks of it, his foundation was extremely deep!
But what shocked Lu Ming even more was that while Mu Linsen and the others' cultivation levels had shot up like rockets, his own Grand Elder and the others were actually still at the Golden Core stage.
The Third Elder, Hanyan, was only at the mid Nascent Soul stage.
Although this speed wasn't slow, compared to Mu Linsen and the others, the difference was simply too vast!
He really wanted to know what had happened to make Mu Linsen and the others get so incredibly lucky while leaving the Grand Elder and the rest behind.
Lu Ming stared at Mu Linsen, Diao San, and the others with a dark expression.
“Speak. Did you guys bully the Grand Elder and the others?”
Mu Linsen, Diao San, and the rest turned pale with fright and quickly explained:
“Big Brother, we've been wronged!”
“Great Sect Master, we really didn't!”
...
Us bullying the Grand Elder and the others? We're lucky enough not to be bullied by them.
But the Grand Elder and the others forbade us from speaking!
“Lu Ming, don't make things difficult for them. They've been very good to us and haven't bullied us at all!”
The Grand Elder quickly spoke up to explain.
“Then why did their cultivation levels all shoot up? Why didn't yours and the Second Elder's increase?”
Lu Ming asked in confusion.
Big Yellow, Fu Chen, and the others also looked at the Grand Elder curiously.
Only Wang Defa muttered in his heart: Why are the Grand Elder and the others hiding this from Lu Ming and the rest?
The Grand Elder let out a sorrowful sigh:
“You have no idea. We just woke up one day, and their cultivation levels had shot up, while ours didn't!”
“What?”
“How is that possible?”
Lu Ming, Big Yellow, and the others couldn't help but cry out in shock!
The corners of Mu Linsen and the others' mouths and eyelids twitched violently. The Grand Elder's lie didn't match reality at all!
But was it really okay to deceive the Great Sect Master and the others like this?
“Grand Elder, are you sure you're speaking human language?”
Lu Ming really couldn't help but complain.
He felt that this was simply too absurd!
The Grand Elder glared at him. “What nonsense are you talking?”
“I... I...”
Lu Ming was temporarily at a loss for words. Finally, he pointed at Mu Linsen:
“Did you really just wake up from a nap and reach the Unity stage?”
“Ah! Yes! I just took a nap and reached the Unity stage!!”
Mu Linsen lied against his conscience, but in his heart, he was weeping tears of sorrow.
Only Big Brother, Second Brother, and Third Brother didn't know about the beatings and suffering he had endured!
He really wanted to chat with them about the hardships he had gone through!
But he didn't dare!
The Grand Elder had said that if anyone dared to speak of it, their cultivation would be crippled!!
“Right, right... we just slept, and our cultivation levels shot up!”
“Yes, I just slept, and I reached the Soul Transformation stage!”
“Great Sect Master, are you surprised? Is it unexpected?”
...
Diao San and the others chimed in as well.
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