When He Founded the Dao Seeking Sect, He Was Only at the Void Refining Stage, and Only Broke Through to Body Integration Once the Sect Was Built — A Perfectly Ordinary First-Rank Sect. Who Could Have Imagined a First-Rank Sect Could Endure a Hundred and Twenty Thousand Years, and Only Grow Stronger?

Back in the Great Yu era, the customs were ugly. If a sect was wiped out, its enemies would dig the sect grounds three feet deep — not just to hunt for valuables, but to root out every last branch and seed. If he had chosen to sleep inside the Dao Seeking Sect, then one day, when the sect fell, his enemies would have killed him in his sleep. Had he known the Dao Seeking Sect would do so well for itself, he would never have gone to such trouble back then to find a secret place to sleep. "Then why did you disperse your cultivation and start over?" Daoist Xiantian looked even more wronged than before. "Do you think I wanted to? When I woke up, before I'd even recovered properly, three Great Qian cultivators came charging in to snatch my Golden Cicada Slough. The one leading them was called something like True Monarch Guanqi. Good heavens — the three of them struck harder than the last. If I hadn't gambled on it, dispersed my cultivation, and started anew to escape, my life would have ended right there." Lu Yang's mouth twitched. So the victim True Monarch Guanqi robbed was you. Meng Jingzhou said indignantly, "That's going too far! That True Monarch Guanqi is utterly lawless — he has no respect at all for our Dao Seeking Sect!" Lu Yang was even more furious. "To treat our patriarch like that! If I ever run into him, I'd throw this worthless life of mine away and fight him to the death!" Hearing this, Daoist Xiantian was deeply moved. Good boys, both of them. He went on, "After I escaped, I heard people say the Dao Seeking Sect was still around and had become one of the Five Great Immortal Sects, so I wanted to make my way there. But the Dao Seeking Sect is too far from here — I had to earn enough for the travel fare first." "And before I'd finished earning the money, Great Xia's official cultivators came charging over. I was just about to run when you two blocked my way and strung me up here." "What did you do, that you run at the sight of Great Xia cultivators?" Lu Yang massaged Daoist Xiantian's shoulders with even more zeal. Daoist Xiantian's face was steeped in gloom. "I have to run even if I've done nothing. I'm not a cultivator of this era — Great Xia's official cultivators will surely arrest me the moment they see me. I reckon the Dao Seeking Sect is safer." Lu Yang understood. The patriarch had only just woken up not long ago and knew nothing about Great Xia; he was judging it by the way Great Yu's authorities had behaved. Great Xia did not arrest every ancient cultivator. Toward those willing to follow Great Xia's rules, Great Xia at most had them registered and would not lay a hand on them. And a victim like the patriarch would be taken under protection, all the more so. Daoist Xiantian sighed. "What a pity about my Golden Cicada Slough." "How did those three Great Qian cultivators led by True Monarch Guanqi know you had a Golden Cicada Slough?" Meng Jingzhou asked, curious. Daoist Xiantian seemed to recall something. He pounded his thigh and said angrily, "It must have been those people from the Great Yu Alliance." "The Great Yu Alliance?" Lu Yang remembered that Wu Youdao seemed to have mentioned that organization. "An alliance formed by a bunch of Great Yu cultivators. Right after I woke, they were the first to find me, hoping I would join them. I didn't think they were reliable, so I refused." "They must have discovered I held the Golden Cicada Slough but couldn't strike at me directly without breaking the Great Yu Alliance's own rules, so they secretly tipped off the Great Qian cultivators and let them snatch my Golden Cicada Slough — then they would snatch it back, and everything would be proper and justified." "I suppose they never expected Great Xia's cultivators to arrive so fast. They didn't dare act out in the open, so they had no choice but to give up." Lu Yang patted his chest in assurance. "Rest easy, Patriarch. If we ever run into those Great Yu Alliance people, our Dao Seeking Sect will definitely win back your honor for you!" Daoist Xiantian felt these two were truly filial, and talented besides — exactly as the pingshu storytellers told it: rare fine seedlings. With these two around, the Dao Seeking Sect's future was vast, and it would surely claim its place in the coming struggle of the Golden Age. "By the way, Patriarch, our mission outside is finished, and we happen to be heading back to the sect. Would you like to come back with us?" "Yes."