When Nie Jingshen was around, it did not affect Bai Tao from taking over the Jade Capital Crag. Now that Nie Jingshen was not around, it was even more so.
However, contrary to everyone’s expectations, Bai Tao left on his own and took root in the Western Continent.
As for the reason, perhaps only the person involved knew.
Only Bai Tao had a short conversation with his master, Yue Zhenbei, before bidding farewell to his master and descending the Jade Capital Crag alone.
Until now, no third person knew the content of their conversation. It became a big mystery after the opening of the Outer Heavens.
Within Broad Creed Mountain, there were many differing opinions regarding this.
Many people speculated that Bai Tao might have done something wrong, which was why there was no possibility of him inheriting the Jade Capital Crag. However, the Jade Capital Crag would handle the matter internally, and the details would not be made public.
This was also the guess of most people in the Realm Beyond Avalon.
In addition, there were also people who believed that Nie Jingshen’s sudden rise to power had more or less damaged Bai Tao’s morale.
Even though Nie Jingshen was not present, Bai Tao still admitted his inferiority.
Or perhaps it was exactly the opposite. He wanted to break free from the shadows of the past, so he severed his past thoughts and established the goal of his life and the foundation of his Sword Dao.
While Broad Creed Mountain’s relationship with Jade Capital Crag was even closer than Golden Court Mountain’s, they similarly had no idea about this matter as they could only guess and discuss it in private.
However, this did not affect Broad Creed Mountain’s interactions with Bai Tao.
When the two sides met, Xue Fei and Bai Tao greeted each other first.
Behind Bai Tao were his current disciples, as well as the leaders of the other local forces in the West Region of the Sky beyond Heaven. Afterwards, they all went up together to greet the current Chief of the Broad Creed Mountain, Xu Fei.
After greeting each other, both parties walked into the main hall together.
Many people had already arrived in the hall. They were seated under the hospitality of Golden Court Mountain’s disciples, waiting quietly for the ceremony to begin.
Bai Tao’s gaze swept over, and he saw his fellow disciple, Wang Pu, representing the Sword Sovereign, Yue Zhenbei, to attend the ceremony.
When the two sides met, they naturally had to reminisce about the past.
“You’re about to break through.” Bai Tao looked at Wang Pu and sighed.
“I’m still not there yet. However, the Immortal Mortal Tribulation is different from the Human Immortal Immortal Realm to the True Immortal Realm. At least there’s no risk.” Wang Pu shook his head lightly as he looked at Bai Tao.
Bai Tao, however, saw through his unfinished intentions and calmly replied, “I’m still not good enough. I’m not even fifty percent sure.”
“You’re still young. It’s fine,” Wang Pu said.
Bai Tao smiled, “If I can’t get past this, a hundred years or a thousand years won’t make a difference.”
In terms of the lifespan of a peak Martial Saint, Bai Tao was naturally still considered young.
Of the Ten Exalts of the World beyond Worlds that year, besides Chen Qianhua, he and the Northwestern Exalt Lian Zulin had been the youngest.
However, there were many Supreme Martial Sages who had wasted their time here and were unable to push open the Immortal Door at the end of their lifespans. There were also many Supreme Martial Sages who had risked their lives to pass the Immortal Mortal Tribulation and perished.
In the World beyond Worlds, other than the Earth Exalt Wang Zhengcheng, the positions of the Exalts of Ten Territories had all changed more than once.
The number of people who died in battle was actually less than those who died of old age.
Hearing this, Wang Pu nodded lightly and did not say anything.
The lifespans of Human Exalts were far shorter than that of True Immortals, while the lifespans of martial practitioners of the ninth level of the Martial Saint realm beneath the Human Exalt realm were similarly shorter than that of Human Exalts.
There were also many people who died at this stage.
Seeing this, Feng Moyang sighed with emotion.
On the path of the Martial Dao, the higher one went, the more difficult it would be.
Those who could overcome all obstacles along the way were few and far between.
Within the Broad Creed Mountain, there were very few people of the older generation who still had the drive to continue advancing.
Yuan Zhengfeng and Fang Zhun had successfully ascended to the Human Exalt realm. However, it was still unknown whether they could pass the Immortal Mortal Tribulation.
As for the other senior expert, Feng Yunsheng and Sikong Qing’s master, Fu Enshu, although she had also ascended to the Immortal Bridge, her improvement speed had started to slow down in recent years.
It wasn’t a problem for her two disciples to surpass her. Fu Enshu had always believed that disciples should surpass their masters.
The problem was that she had a tendency of not having enough stamina.
Fu Enshu’s age was still young compared to the lifespan of her current realm. There was still hope for her to continue improving. However, as her improvement speed slowed down, as time passed, there would be a day when she would no longer be young and her potential would be exhausted.
Feng Yunsheng and Sikong Qing had surpassed her. However, she didn’t have the confidence to catch up to or even surpass her master, Yuan Zhengfeng.
In the Broad Creed Mountain, Fu Enshu was one of the most diligent people in cultivating.
However, it would be very difficult for her to reach Yuan Zhengfeng’s height.
Just like Bai Tao and Wang Pu, it was also very difficult for them to catch up to their master, Yue Zhenbei.
As for Feng Moyang, he might have to face the same helplessness one day in the future.
However, the path of pursuing the dao was often so cruel and unreasonable.
From another perspective, Yan Zhaoge and the others, the peak experts of Daoism, and even many people including Feng Moyang, were trying their best to change this world in order to resist the cruel rules of nature. They wanted to broaden and smooth the path of the martial art practitioners in this world.
Thinking about this, Feng Moyang smiled slightly.
“I will go to meet Chief Cao with Daoist Bai and Daoist Wang.” Xu Fei turned his head and said.
Feng Moyang and the other martial art practitioners of the Broad Creed Mountain all nodded and saw the three of them off.
When Xu Fei and the others entered the secluded room, they saw that other than Cao Jie, there were already a few people sitting inside.
One of them was none other than Yan Zhaoge.
“Senior apprentice-brother Xu, you guys are a bit late.” Yan Zhaoge said with a smile.
Xu Fei smiled and shook his head, “I’m a bit late to deal with the matters of the sect.”
He cupped his hands towards Cao Jie and said, “Please forgive me, senior.”
“It doesn’t matter. It’s still early.” Cao Jie naturally wouldn’t mind.
Xu Fei had long known that Yan Zhaoge would come here to congratulate Cao Jie and discuss something with him.
Of course, Yan Zhaoge wouldn’t show up at the ceremony later. In order to avoid overshadowing the host, they would meet here in private.
Besides Yan Zhaoge, there were also the Brocade Emperor Fu Yunchi, Liu Zhenggu who had pushed open the door to immortality earlier than Cao Jie, and Gao Xuebo of the Roving Jade Heavens.
Bai Tao and Wang Pu were also aware of this. They greeted Yan Zhaoge and the others with their usual expressions.
After sitting down, they continued their previous conversation. Yan Zhaoge looked at Cao Jie and asked, “Senior, I know that your lineage is of the Grand Clear direct lineage. However, about the Daoist Way Heavenly Ancestor, is there any other clue in Golden Court Mountain?”
Everyone knew that Golden Court Mountain’s lineage was of the Grand Clear direct lineage. It was just a coincidence that the name of the mountain and the dao arena of the Daoist Way Heavenly Ancestor of the Jade Clear bigwig, the Daoist Way Heavenly Ancestor of the Golden Court Mountain.
Still, Yan Zhaoge still had to confirm it now, not letting go of any possibility.
After all, in the ancient era of the Investitures of the Gods, the Immortal Ending Ancient Sword of the Immortal Exterminating Four Swords had been obtained by the Daoist Way Heavenly Ancestor after the Immortal Exterminating Formation had been broken.