Lu Ming looked at the Grand Elder lying on the lounge chair and chuckled, “Grand Elder, do you think the Third Elder can break through to the Nascent Soul stage?”
The Grand Elder's mouth twitched, and he muttered, “He should be able to. After all, the Third Elder's talent is still very good.”
Lu Ming nodded, then continued, “Grand Elder, can you do me a favor?”
The Grand Elder raised an eyebrow. “What is it? Let me tell you first, I'm no good at fighting...”
Lu Ming felt extremely embarrassed. He didn't understand why the Grand Elder and the others were so afraid of fighting.
It was just a fight. He, a model youth who grew up in a peaceful modern world, had already adapted to this strength-respecting cultivation world to the point where he could wield a blade and chop people down. Yet, a local native like the Grand Elder was actually afraid of fighting.
Seeing the Grand Elder staring at him, Lu Ming said helplessly, “Don't worry, it's not a fight.”
Hearing this, the Grand Elder couldn't help but sigh in relief. “As long as it's not a fight. Go ahead...”
“It's like this, Grand Elder. We have another disciple named Wang Defa who just went through a heartbreak. We want you to divine where he is right now. We want to visit him and make sure the old man doesn't do anything rash...”
“Yes, yes... We plan to give Old Man Wang a surprise and find him eight or ten old ladies...”
“Indeed...”
Big Yellow and Huang Tianbao chimed in from the side.
“Pfft... Cough, cough...”
The Grand Elder almost choked to death upon hearing their words.
Ever since Lu Ming opened his mouth, the Grand Elder's eyelids had been twitching constantly.
Where the hell was he supposed to find a Wang Defa for them?
And on top of that, they wanted to find eight or ten old ladies.
Were they trying to take his old life?
Wouldn't that many old ladies start fighting among themselves?
“Grand Elder, why are your eyelids twitching so much?”
The Grand Elder pressed his eyelids. “Is it that obvious?”
Lu Ming, Huang Tianbao, and Big Yellow nodded in unison.
“It feels like they're dancing...”
“Ah... I'm old! My eyelids are out of control; they have a mind of their own now.”
Lu Ming, Huang Tianbao, and Big Yellow: “???”
Was there even such an excuse?
“Grand Elder, can you help us divine Wang Defa's whereabouts?”
Lu Ming continued to ask persistently.
It was really because Lu Ming felt the old man was just too useful. He knew a bit of everything and was knowledgeable about everything.
Even though his cultivation wasn't high, Lu Ming had already made up his mind.
Even if he had to pile up spiritual herbs, he would force the old man's cultivation up.
“Name and eight characters of birth time?”
The Grand Elder looked at Lu Ming and asked.
Lu Ming was taken aback. Did divination require these things?
“We only know his name is Wang Defa. We don't know anything else...”
The Grand Elder said with a troubled expression, “Without his birth details, I can't divine it!”
Lu Ming stared at him eagerly. “Grand Elder, please just divine an approximate location!”
Fearing that Lu Ming and the others would keep pestering him, the Grand Elder smacked his lips and had no choice but to say, “Fine!” Then, he narrowed his eyes and began to pretend to count on his fingers: “Mountains govern people, waters govern wealth, Wang Defa, get into my bowl quickly...”
Hearing these words, Lu Ming's face turned odd. Why did that sound so strange?
Or was he overthinking things?
A moment later, the Grand Elder opened his eyes. “The Wang Defa you want to divine is handsome and kind-hearted, elegant and refined, dashing and unconstrained, exceptionally handsome, extremely talented, and witty...”
“Stop, stop, stop... Grand Elder, are you sure you're divining Wang Defa and not me?”
Lu Ming interrupted the Grand Elder.
Big Yellow and Huang Tianbao also looked at the Grand Elder in complete bewilderment.
Was this really divining that old man, Wang Defa?
The Grand Elder glared at them. “What nonsense! You can doubt my character, but you absolutely cannot doubt my aesthetic sense. The one I divined is indeed Wang Defa...”
“Forget it, forget it. Just tell us where Wang Defa is right now!”
Lu Ming even suspected that the Grand Elder's divination skills were less accurate than Wang Defa's own.
The Grand Elder blinked. “Well... He's currently out traveling and gaining experience, so he doesn't have a fixed location. Once his travels are over, he will come find you...”
“Really? When he sent me a sound transmission earlier, he sounded completely heartbroken.”
Lu Ming asked skeptically.
“His tone was incredibly sorrowful...”
Big Yellow wagged its tail and added.
Huang Tianbao also nodded in agreement.
The Grand Elder's mouth twitched, utterly speechless. “Can't the man move on? Can't he go out to see the vast world?”
“True...”
Lu Ming nodded, finding some sense in that.
However, he still highly doubted the Grand Elder's divination abilities.
Then, Lu Ming thought of something and asked, “Grand Elder, what about our sect's Sect Master? We've never seen him.”
Lu Ming found it rather strange. Ever since they arrived at the Qingshan Sect, they had never seen the Sect Master.
It had always been just the three elders.
Big Yellow and Huang Tianbao also looked at the Grand Elder with curiosity.
“Our Sect Master went into life-or-death seclusion...”
“What is life-or-death seclusion?”
Huang Tianbao couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.
“Life-or-death seclusion means that when a cultivator lacks the confidence to break through to the next realm, they enter seclusion to force it. If they succeed, they live; if they fail, they die...”
“Hiss...”
Hearing the Grand Elder's explanation, Lu Ming couldn't help but gasp.
He hadn't expected their Sect Master to be such a ruthless character.
“Then is it possible to end up half-dead?”
Lu Ming couldn't help but ask.
The Grand Elder's eyelids twitched. “What kind of absurd question is that?”
“Hehehe... Just asking!”
Lu Ming chuckled.
Just then, the Grand Elder continued to ramble and show off, “You have no idea. Back then, to prepare a great gold coffin for the Sect Master, I practically sold everything I owned to scrape together enough. That gold coffin was incredibly exquisite...”
As the Grand Elder described the appearance of the gold coffin, Lu Ming's expression grew more and more peculiar...
At this moment, Big Yellow also felt a bit puzzled. “Why does that sound so familiar?”
“Yes, Second Senior Brother is right! I have the same feeling...”
Huang Tianbao chimed in.
...
Just then, with a wave of Lu Ming's hand, a great gold coffin appeared in the courtyard.
Amidst the rising dust, the Grand Elder jumped straight up from his lounge chair.
Boom...
The moment the great gold coffin appeared, the Second Elder's alchemy furnace exploded, and she rushed out with her hair looking like a bird's nest.
Thud...
The Third Elder's aura also surged violently as he instantly entered the Nascent Soul stage and rushed over as well.
“Holy crap... Why is the Sect Master's coffin with you?”
The Grand Elder circled the coffin, looking as if he had a severe toothache.
“Exactly, why is the Sect Master's coffin with you?”
The Second Elder also glared and asked Lu Ming.
Although the Third Elder didn't speak, his gaze was also fixed on the trio.
Lu Ming and the other two kept their heads down, remaining silent.
Lu Ming was also completely dumbfounded. He had never expected that the old man he had been calling “Grandfather” for so long was actually his own sect's Sect Master.
This was incredibly unexpected, wasn't it?
The three elders also exchanged glances. They hadn't expected the Sect Master to be hanging out with Lu Ming and the others either.
Back then, when the Sect Master entered life-or-death seclusion, he had lain in the coffin and cast himself into a spatial crack precisely because he was afraid of being disturbed.
He hadn't even let the Grand Elder and the others know of his whereabouts.
Yet now, he had actually been carried back by his own sect's disciples.
Just what was going on here?
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