“Father… Father…”
“Old thing, come out here!”
“Your son is looking for you!”
Wuwei shouted all over the palace.
However, there was no reply.
He even ran behind the shrine to check if the Old Man was in the Lingzhi Garden.
He was not!
In the Lingzhi Garden, the once lush large tree had long withered, leaving only a bare trunk.
“Where did the Old Man go?” Wuwei glared at He Pingsheng.
Everyone else also looked at He Pingsheng.
He Pingsheng took a deep breath. He knew that this matter could not be concealed today, so he could only nod and say, “Alright, I can tell you… However, irrelevant people must leave first!”
There were six people in the room.
Besides He Pingsheng, there were Wuwei, Chongyang, Jianzhu, Yu Xuan, and the outsider dressed in a purple Daoist robe.
He Pingsheng’s meaning was clear.
Wuwei cupped his hands towards the Daoist and said, “Sir, please leave first. We need to handle some internal matters. Wuwei will not shortchange you on the items promised!”
“Very well!” The purple-robed Daoist nodded, then directly left the main hall.
Now, only their own people remained in the main hall.
Except for He Pingsheng, the rest were all in the Golden Core Stage.
“Alright, now you can speak, right?” Wuwei’s eyes narrowed slightly, staring at He Pingsheng.
As if afraid he would run away.
He Pingsheng said, “Although Master said in front of everyone that he had already known his destiny and had another sixty years of Lifespan, in reality, the Old Man had indeed ascended to immortality!”
“Good…” Before He Pingsheng finished speaking, Wuwei excitedly said, “The Old thing did say he had another sixty years of Lifespan, but now he has actually ascended. Did you kill the Old Man?”
He Pingsheng looked at him with an idiotic expression: “Senior Brother, do you think I, a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator, could kill a Nascent Soul?”
“This…” Chongyang also followed, “Senior Brother is joking. Let alone Junior Brother, even you and I, what could we do to Master?”
A Nascent Soul was still a Nascent Soul, even if this Nascent Soul was on its last legs!
“Junior Brother, continue!” Jianzhu also felt that He Pingsheng killing the Old Man was unlikely.
He Pingsheng nodded and continued slowly, “The so-called knowing destiny and sixty years of Lifespan were actually all lies to deceive us… To be precise, to deceive you!”
Wuwei said, “Deceive us?”
“Exactly!” He Pingsheng said; “Not only deceiving you, but also deceiving the Beast Taming Immortal Sect… Master’s true Lifespan was actually almost at its end at that time!”
“The reason he lied to us about having another sixty years of Lifespan was to buy sixty years for the Tai Xu Sect!”
“He hoped that within these sixty years, the Tai Xu Sect could cultivate a Nascent Soul to guard the Sect!”
He Pingsheng said, “This is the whole truth. Believe it or not!”
“Alright!” Wuwei said, “So, in that case, the orders issued in the Old Ancestor’s name these past two years were actually all your own intentions, weren’t they?”
Wuwei was aggressive.
He Pingsheng nodded and said, “Yes… The only order Junior Brother issued in the Old Ancestor’s name was to promote Yu Ning and Yu Xuan to the positions of Elder, Senior Brother, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that!”
The Sect just happened to have two vacant Elder positions, and coincidentally, two Golden Core cultivators could fill them, and only these two Golden Core cultivators could fill them.
So, Wuwei couldn’t find any fault.
“Hehehe… Junior Brother, what you said isn’t right!” Jianzhu suddenly spoke. She said, “I heard that the Beast Taming Immortal Sect has a Spell that can ‘Observe Qi,’ which is extremely Heaven-Defying. If the Old Ancestor passed away, how could they not know, and how could they sit idly by?”
“Is there something else hidden in this matter?”
Since this matter could no longer be concealed, He Pingsheng simply blurted it all out.
At this point, whether he said it or not made no difference.
He raised his hand, pointed to a golden lamp on the high platform in the main hall, and said, “Senior Brothers, Senior Sister, do you see this golden lamp?”
Everyone nodded.
“This is the Luck Golden Lamp!” He Pingsheng said, “Before Master’s death, he transformed all his vital Qi and Luck, as well as his Nascent Soul, into lamp oil and integrated them into this golden lamp.”
“This golden lamp can burn for sixty years!”
“And while this golden lamp is burning, it will continuously emit Master’s own Qi to obscure the Beast Taming Immortal Sect’s Qi Observation Spell!”
“Therefore, as long as we don’t spread the news that the Old Ancestor has fallen, the people of the Beast Taming Immortal Sect will not be able to know the news of the Old Ancestor’s demise!”
Upon hearing this, everyone was astonished and shocked.
They hadn’t expected that even in death, Master was thinking of the entire Sect.
Respect for Master immediately rose in everyone’s hearts, with Wuwei being the sole exception.
Wuwei glared fiercely at He Pingsheng, “Junior Brother, I ask you, before my father died, did he pass the Taixu Great Xuan Scripture to you?”
Whoosh…
The rest of the people also turned their gaze.
The Taixu Great Xuan Scripture, this was the highest Legacy of the Tai Xu Sect.
Countless people coveted it.
Although they might not be able to cultivate it.
“Senior Brother…” He Pingsheng was very calm, and asked, “Do you know why I ran away that time?”
Wuwei said, “How could I know?”
He Pingsheng said, “I have the Five Elements Spiritual Root… I was afraid, afraid that the Old Man would pass the Taixu Great Xuan Scripture to you, and then you would kill me and fuse my Spiritual Root!”
“Don’t you dare say you never had such a thought!”
He Pingsheng looked calmly at Wuwei.
Wuwei said, “And then?”
He Pingsheng said, “Then I was caught by Master. He assured me that this Taixu Great Xuan Scripture was too harmful to the Dao, so he intended to take this Cultivation Technique with him and never let it circulate in the world again!”
“So, I did not obtain the Great Xuan Scripture!”
“Also, if Master had truly passed the Great Xuan Scripture to me, do you think I would still be here waiting for you to make trouble after the Old Man died?”
“No…” Without waiting for Wuwei to answer, He Pingsheng answered himself, saying, “I would have run away long ago. Wouldn’t it be better to just find a place to hide?”
“So, I really didn’t get any Great Xuan Scripture!”
Hearing He Pingsheng say this, Wuwei was already about seventy to eighty percent convinced. He cursed at the golden lamp, “This damned Old thing, you’re dead, and you still didn’t pass the Cultivation Technique to me?”
“Are you worthy of me?”
“Are you worthy of my mother?”
“You deserve to die…”
“If I die, you won’t have it easy either!”
“Let it be destroyed… Let it all be destroyed… Hahaha… What Tai Xu Sect, what foundation!”
“It’s all nonsense!”
Boom…
Wuwei then punched out, striking fiercely at the golden lamp.
This punch came too suddenly, and others didn’t have time to stop him!
With a bang, the golden lamp was immediately knocked to the ground, and the lamp oil inside spilled everywhere.
“Not good…” Everyone’s expressions changed dramatically.
But at this moment, the golden lamp’s flame suddenly rose, and the lamp oil spilled on the ground began to burn fiercely, engulfing the entire main hall in towering flames.