Chapter 1049 - The Difficult Little Girl (2/2)
“There are five of you now?” Mo Qingtian said, somewhat speechless, as she looked at Mo Wen and the bunch.
Did Mo Wen not say there would only be two people going? Why were there five now?
“Can you get hold of five recommendation slots for us?” Mo Wen asked.
He had initially thought that the Jade Xiu King and the rest of them would be able to break through to the Supreme Profundity Realm within the years and without a hitch, so he had not thought about bringing them along.
“It wouldn’t be a problem, not if you had told me earlier, but now that you’re making such a last-minute request it makes things a little trickier. The recommendation slots are a touchy subject in the Huatian Palace since a lot of people are interested in the Ancestral Sorcerer Battlefield.”
The Huatian Palace held quite a number of recommendation slots, but the distribution was not restricted to people within the palace; a part of it had to be split amongst the sects of the Peng Lai Immortal Realm. There had been an abundance at the start, but now that they had more or less been handed out, there was no way they could be rescinded.
“Let me think of something,” Mo Qingtian said with a shake of her head. She looked curiously at the four people standing beside Mo Wen. This Mo Wen, just how did he manage to find so many Tide Changing Realm cultivators? And not a single one of them looked like pushovers either, especially the indifferent young girl.
Mo Qingtian could not help but sneak a few more glances at her. In the end, she kept her gaze fixed on something in the distance and her hands behind her back. How aloof she looked, not even sparing him a glance.
“Then I leave it to you, Brother Qingtian,” Mo Wen said with a smile.
Mo Qingtian hurried off to make arrangements for the slots. Meanwhile, Mo Wen brought the Jade Xiu King and the rest for a walk around the Senate peak.
“Mo Wen, is this Huatian Palace the same as the one that was the most influential back then?” The Ink Scaled King looked around curiously.
“Mhm. Right behind the Huatian Palace is the Spirit World. None of the high-level cultivators are in the Source World these days.” Mo Wen nodded.
“This place is something else. It’s likely to have been built by a Heavenly Path Sage.”
The Jade Xiu King looked at this world, somewhat in awe. The Huatian Palace did not seem like a complicated place on the surface but one could tell, if they paid attention, that this place looked like it was situated in turbulent times. It also seemed like a dense spatial intersection, connected to another world.
It was unlikely even for a Virtue and Justice Realm cultivator to have made an influence in a place like this.
“Huatian Palace is not simple. After all, it controls all of the worlds’ life and death.” It was normal that a Heavenly Path Sage had built the Huatian Palace since it was responsible for the operation of the entire source world.
Mo Wen and the rest discussed the structure and the wonders of the Huatian Palace in hushed tones. Meanwhile, Gu Jingman and Mo Yuqing refused to even look at each other. One had her arms crossed and the other had them behind her back, neither of them able to tolerate the other’s presence.
Mo Wen had long detected this situation, but he simply pretended that he did not see it. Only a fool would meddle in this. The two of them had been like this the whole time they were on this journey, so he could only hope they did not stir trouble in the Ancestral Sorcerer Battlefield.
“Haha, Brother Mo Wen, you’re something else, aren’t you? I can’t believe you made it to the Tide Changing Realm so quickly. I’ve spent more than 600 years cultivating before I could make it this far.”
A hearty laugh rang out from inside the Senate. An elder dressed in black stepped out shortly after. It was none other than Wise Man Ku Ji.
“Congratulations, Brother Ku Ji,” Mo Wen said with a smile.
“It’s all thanks to you that I could break through to the Tide Changing Realm. You’re my lucky star, and I can’t even begin to imagine how long it’d take for me to make it this far on my own,” Wise Man Ku Ji said with a loud laugh.
“How do I address these friends of yours?” He asked curiously, looking at Jade Xiu King and the rest.
With a smile, Mo Wen introduced them to Wise Man Ku Ji. He did not reveal their identities, of course, and he only gave him their names.
“You’re really something else, gathering a bunch of elites without a single sound. Don’t worry, the slots for the Ancestral Sorcerer Battlefield shouldn’t be a problem,” Wise Man Ku Ji said with a smile.
“How did you know we were going to the Ancestral Sorcerer Battlefield?” Mo Wen asked in shock.
“Don’t you know, Brother Mo Wen? Veteran Ku Ji just gave his slot to you. The Huatian Palace had initially finalized the slots for themselves and had to hand over the rest to the sects in the Peng Lai Immortal Realm, so the three extra slots you want will have to come from within the Huatian Palace.”
Another voice rang out, and Mo Wen thought it sounded familiar. It was Xiao Jinghe.
He saw four other figures walking over from afar. Xiao Jinghe had not been the only one to come; Nie Junxue, Wen Jiuhai, and Chu Yu had also made their way over.
“Is this true, Brother Ku Ji? This is…” Mo Wen looked towards Wise Man Ku Ji. The latter had actually given up his own slot for him, so this was no small debt he owed the other—after all, the Ancestral Sorcerer Battlefield was a rare opportunity.
“Don’t get started with me, this is no big deal. Besides, I’ve never really wanted to go to the Ancestral Sorcerer Battlefield anyway. You know as well that I’ve only just broken through to the Tide Changing Realm and I’m still too far behind the elites from the other worlds. Even if I did go, there’s a huge chance I’d end up dead, and I’m actually relieved now that I don’t have to go.”
Wise Man Ku Ji smiled as he patted Mo Wen’s shoulders. The Huatian Palace had reserved quite a portion of the slots for themselves and even he had managed to receive one, but how could he go when the Ancestral Sorcerer Battlefield was so dangerous?