"However, I believe that in a few years, they will be able to undo the Seal and establish a link with the Profound Celestial Continent."
"The Dragon Bone is a supre treasure of Lingxiao Mountain. Using it is no trivial matter. As your Master, I can’t give it to you based solely on your word!"
Ji Shang’s lips twitched. His Master wasn’t one to act without incentive; he clearly wanted so leverage!
"Master! If you give the Dragon Bone, I will secure a future for Lingxiao Mountain. How does that sound?"
"A future for Lingxiao Mountain? Surely you don’t an you’re about to break through to First Grade and beco an Immortal?"
Venerable Heron’s eyes lit up. Forget about Lingxiao Mountain’s distant future! Right now, they desperately needed soone who could imdiately step into the First Grade Immortal realm and take charge!
Ji Shang gave a low chuckle and stepped forward. "That’s only one part of it. Knowing the whereabouts of my wife and children, and fulfilling my wish to see them one last ti, will naturally help advance further. But this alone doesn’t constitute Lingxiao Mountain’s future!"
That’s not Lingxiao Mountain’s future? Venerable Heron looked at him in utter confusion.
"A child who reached the Great Grandmaster Realm at the tender age of five."
"What? Is this true? And where is this child now?" Venerable Heron was agitated. His old face couldn’t mask his joy. He rose from his main seat and swiftly walked over to Ji Shang, staring at him intently, as if trying to discern the truth from his eyes.
"Of course, it’s true. Master, do you recall when I once told you about accidentally entering the Tianling Continent, where I married and had eight children?"
Venerable Heron’s eyes twitched. He wanted to say that he had rely dismissed it at the ti and hadn’t paid it much mind. After all, the place his disciple ntioned was utterly disconnected from the Profound Celestial Continent. No matter how outstanding his descendants were, they couldn’t reach the Profound Celestial Continent.
"I rember. Could it be, this child you speak of is your grandchild?"
Venerable Heron sighed inwardly. What a sha, with the two Realms disconnected. Otherwise, he would have imdiately brought that child to Lingxiao Mountain.
"She is my granddaughter. At just five years old, she is blessed with imnse fortune by the Celestial Dao. She possesses her own Dream Realm, can draw my soul into it, and is an ideal prodigy for practicing high-level Illusion Techniques!"
Venerable Heron was overjoyed and hurriedly pressed for more details. "So, all your unusual behavior these past few days is related to this child?"
Ji Shang nodded. "Yes. That sword wound from Song Yuzhong... it was because my precious granddaughter forcefully pulled into her Dream Realm. I lost consciousness, and that’s how I got hit!"
"So that’s how it was, that’s how it was," Venerable Heron mused. "Then tell , how can we open a passage between our Profound Celestial Continent and the Tianling Continent? Is giving you the Dragon Bone enough?"
At this mont, Venerable Heron had only one thought: open the passage between the two Realms as quickly as possible! That way, Lingxiao Mountain’s lineage would have a successor for the next generation!
"Certainly not!" Ji Shang was quick to reply. "Besides the Dragon Bone, we also need the bones of the White Tiger, and the remains of the Black Tortoise and the Vermilion Bird! Furthermore, we’ll need to find the Divine Souls, or at least the souls, of the Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and White Tiger."
"You... you’re being preposterous!" Ji Shang had barely finished speaking when Venerable Heron roared. This was an absolutely outrageous demand! The Dragon Bone itself was a supre treasure! Yet, he also wanted the bones of the White Tiger, and the remains of the Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise. Finding those would take considerable effort, but his demands didn’t stop there. He even wanted the Divine Souls or souls of the Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and White Tiger! This disciple was clearly trying to fleece Lingxiao Mountain for all it was worth!
"Master, please hear out! Consider the Dragon Bone, and the bones of the White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and Vermilion Bird as borrowed. She only needs them to set up a deceptive array to fool the heavens. Once she reaches the Great Ascension Realm and breaks the Celestial Dao Seal, these materials used for the array can be retrieved. As for the Divine Souls of the Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and so on, we can search for them slowly later. The crucial thing is that right now, my precious granddaughter and my seventh son are trapped in the eastern sector of the Fourth Level of the Array of Heaven. If we don’t use the Dragon Bone to set up a decoy Dragon-Locking Array, they will be trapped beneath the sea forever."
Venerable Heron pondered for a mont and understood. "You’re saying that five-year-old child, the one who reached the Grandmaster Realm, is trapped in the Fourth Level of the Array of Heaven?"
"Exactly, Master! This child is truly exceptionally gifted! If she were to fall now, it would be a terrible waste. But if we help them now, I guarantee that within ten years, she will definitely break the Dragon-Locking Array. The Spiritual Qi of the Tianling Continent will be restored, and a passage to our Cultivation Realm will be established. By then, I will definitely bring them to Lingxiao Mountain."
This was a temptation, one great enough for Venerable Heron to gamble Lingxiao Mountain’s future on.
"Apart from this, as your Master, I also need you to promise that you will soon enter seclusion to break through to the First Grade Immortal rank and beco Lingxiao Mountain’s pillar of support."
"That’s a given!" Ji Shang agreed very readily.
Seeing the firm resolve in his Disciple’s Dao Heart, Venerable Heron nodded in agreent. "Go, then! Take my command token and retrieve it yourself!"
"Thank you, Master! By the way, I received sothing from my precious granddaughter. I initially thought it was just an ordinary trinket and didn’t pay it much mind. But just now, when I was looking for a gift for you, Master, I realized this item might not be so simple. Please take a look, what do you think this is?"
With that, Ji Shang took out a few black beads from his dinsional sleeve—ones Xiaosuisui had casually given him—and handed them to Venerable Heron.
Venerable Heron didn’t pay it much heed. After all, what remarkable treasure could co from a Realm with an incomplete Celestial Dao?
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