Chapter 516: Chapter 423 Expectation_3
Simply extend a helping hand and accumulate a bit of goodwill in the mortal world.
"Chihong Immortal indeed has good fortune."
Yu Cheng Venerable smiled slightly and turned to walk out.
Within Tuota Peak, the remaining four continued drinking tea and chatting, unconcerned with matters outside.
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Three days passed.
Golden Light Immortal Venerable and others broke into Fierce Bird Mountain and stayed there for three days.
Chihong Immortal also waited outside the mountain for three days.
Three days later.
"They’re coming out!"
"Why are they coming out?"
When Chihong Immortal saw the three Immortal Venerables and the various Heavenly Venerates exiting one after another and gathering together, his heart sank.
He had assumed that with the Immortal Venerables and Heavenly Venerates storming the mountain, taking down Fierce Bird Mountain would be an easy task. By then, he could plead with Yu Ming Immortal Venerable to allow him to practice in the Fire-element Origin for decades, maintaining the hope of advancing to the mid-stage Dharma Body.
But now, it seemed that hope was dashed.
Chihong Immortal felt somewhat disappointed.
However, he quickly noticed that while the three Immortal Venerables had come out one after another, the three from Yu Ming Immortal Court had yet to appear.
"What’s going on?"
Chihong Immortal’s heart skipped a beat, and an ominous thought crossed his mind.
Fortunately, just as his imagination began to run wild, Yu Cheng Venerable walked leisurely out of Fierce Bird Mountain. Although it was just him, his calm and unhurried demeanor was reassuring.
"It seems nothing unexpected happened."
Chihong Immortal thought to himself.
On the other side.
Golden Light Immortal Venerable and others also found this strange.
Golden Light Immortal Venerable, always impatient, raised his booming voice and asked, "Why have you come out alone, Daoist Yu Cheng? Are Yu Ming and Shanhua still trapped inside?"
As he spoke, he realized something didn’t add up.
"Daoist Yu Ming is the strongest in arrays. This Fierce Bird Mountain may trap us, but it cannot trap him."
"Could it be he’s found it amusing and deliberately stayed behind?"
Golden Light Immortal Venerable looked at Yu Cheng Venerable.
The others also turned their gazes toward him.
Yu Cheng Venerable shook his head and smiled. "Not at all. My senior brother has reunited with an old friend and is catching up inside the mountain. He asked me to come out and inform everyone."
"An old friend?"
Golden Light Immortal Venerable was stunned.
"Indeed."
"My senior brother didn’t expect that the Mountain Master of Fierce Bird Mountain, the ’Wind Thunder Immortal,’ would turn out to be Dongning Venerable’s Dao companion."
"My senior brother and Wind Thunder Immortal are now close friends, and the misunderstanding with Dongning Venerable has been resolved. As for the three Immortal Venerables here, we must apologize."
Yu Cheng Venerable explained it directly.
His words left everyone utterly dumbfounded, making them feel as if the world had suddenly turned bizarre.
They had been hunting Dongning Venerable, only to find Dongning Venerable entangled with Wind Thunder Immortal—someone with whom he supposedly had past conflicts and whom he had once cut down without hesitation.
That alone was strange enough.
Now, Yu Ming Immortal Venerable goes into Fierce Bird Mountain, and somehow he and this Wind Thunder Immortal have become such inseparable friends?
One as the Dao companion of a Heavenly Venerate.
One as a friend to an Immortal Venerable.
This ’Wind Thunder Immortal,’ who was merely a Three-Pattern Upper Immortal hundreds of years ago, how could he possess such charm for both men and women?
Yu Cheng Venerable offered no further explanation. He was well aware that his senior brother had now pinned his hopes of transcendence entirely on the couple within the mountain. Since Dongning Venerable harbored significant grudges against the Three Immortal Courts, it was best not to engage with them too much.
Thus, he gestured toward Chihong Immortal, who had hurried over from afar, and said, "Immortal Monarch, please follow me inside. The Mountain Master has invited you."
"Ah?"
"I can enter?"
Chihong Immortal’s thoughts raced, and he was immediately overjoyed.
He paid no heed to the awkward atmosphere in the vicinity and quickly walked over to Yu Cheng Venerable, happily following him into the enigmatic Fierce Bird Mountain.
He had never imagined that after 200 years of being denied entry into Fierce Bird Mountain, he would finally be invited in openly and grandly.
His steps were light and brisk.
He was delighted.
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