"Junior Fang Wuya greets the Patriarch." Fang Wuya bowed deeply in formal salutation.
"I don't deserve this, truly I don't." Daoist Xiantian hurriedly waved his hands. For the Dao Seeking Sect to have endured to this day, Fang Wuya's contributions were no smaller than his own.
"The Patriarch founded the Dao Seeking Sect. You deserve every bow," Fang Wuya said earnestly.
"Eldest Senior Sister, who in our sect knows about Senior Hanhai's existence?" Lu Yang asked in a whisper.
"Senior Hanhai is the sect's greatest trump card and cannot be summoned lightly. According to the rules, only the Sect Master is qualified to know."
"However, when it came to Grandmaster's generation, Grandmaster never told Master about Senior Hanhai. Thus, only Grandmaster in the sect knew of his existence."
Lu Yang thought to himself, *Could it be that Grandmaster was afraid Master would run amok even more recklessly outside with a half-immortal backing him, which was why he kept it from Master?*
It seemed Master's constant swindling and scamming had thoroughly cost him Grandmaster's trust.
By contrast, although Lu Yang had resurrected an ancient immortal and drawn out ancient Body Integration cultivators, Tribulation Transcendence experts, and half-immortals, all of that had happened through mere twists of coincidence, never by his own design.
Surely it was for this reason that Eldest Senior Sister deemed him someone who didn't stir up trouble, and was willing to let him in on Senior Hanhai's secret.
Immortal Fairy looked at Lu Yang in astonishment. *Wasn't it because the trouble you stirred up always exceeded Daoist Lord Hanhai's capabilities—meaning it made zero difference whether you knew about him or not—that Girl Yun told you?*
"Later, Grandmaster saw my remarkable cultivation talent and hoped Senior Hanhai could resolve some confusion in my practice. That was why he broke precedent and introduced me to Senior Hanhai."
"And then?"
"And then I resolved Senior Hanhai's confusion in his cultivation. He gained an epiphany and has remained in seclusion ever since."
Lu Yang: "..."
Meng Jingzhou: "..."
*Did Senior Hanhai really enter seclusion because of an epiphany?*
"Right, Eldest Senior Sister, Heavenly Venerable Guiyuan couldn't still be alive too, could he?"
Eldest Senior Sister shook her head gently. "Heavenly Venerable Guiyuan disappeared long ago."
"If Heavenly Venerable Guiyuan were still around, the Dao Seeking Sect wouldn't have gone through decline and revival in the first place."
Heavenly Venerable Guiyuan was a figure from the same era as the Xia Family's Old Ancestor and the Meng Family's Old Ancestor, and he had established the concept of the Five Great Immortal Sects. His strength was beyond question. If such a person had stayed in the Dao Seeking Sect the entire time, how could the sect have ever fallen into decline, let alone required a "revival"?
Lu Yang gave it some thought; that did make complete sense.
"How did Heavenly Venerable Guiyuan disappear?"
"According to the sect records, on a certain day eighty thousand years ago, Heavenly Venerable Guiyuan announced that he was going to travel the world. After that, he vanished without a trace, and not a single word was ever heard from him again. No one knows where he went."
"I suspect he became trapped somewhere and could not leave," Eldest Senior Sister sighed. Heavenly Venerable Guiyuan was a half-immortal, and half-immortals had finite lifespans. Eighty thousand years had passed; who knew whether he was still trapped somewhere, or if his lifespan had run out and he had perished.
Of course, it was also possible he had been unlucky enough to run into some immortal and was wiped out on the spot.
"By the way, Patriarch, how did you turn into a mortal? Did you disperse your cultivation to start anew?" Daoist Lord Hanhai asked.
Daoist Xiantian nodded. "Yes."
"Then are you planning to cultivate again? How about I teach you?" Daoist Lord Hanhai wore a faint look of excitement.
Daoist Xiantian couldn't shake the feeling that there was something odd about Daoist Lord Hanhai's offer.
Although he had previously reached the Body Integration stage and cultivating back to it wouldn't be difficult, having a half-immortal instruct him would indeed yield better results than cultivating all by himself.
"Alright."
Chapter 736