57: warn

Immortal Master Xuan Qing carefully sized up Lin Tianxuan, and Li Haotian smiled.

"Sect Master, there's no need to look further. This is the Elder I recruited a while ago. Thank you for speaking up and helping us out just now."

Li Haotian wanted to gloss over the matter and deflect it. If it attracted the other Old Ancestors of the Sect, it would probably be a bit troublesome.

Lin Tianxuan sensed his Revered Master's thoughts and glared fiercely at Immortal Master Xuan Qing. He didn't know how many generations of his Revered Master's Disciples and grand-Disciples the other party was, yet they dared to come with others to trouble his Revered Master.

If it weren't for his Revered Master's kindness, unwilling to bicker with them, he could easily smack this Peak Saint to death with just a casual word.

Not only did the other party not leave, but they even dared to stare at him. As an Old Ancestor, he was full of spirit, and all the rules of the Heavenly Profound Sect were set by him. To treat him like this, according to the Sect rules for disrespecting a senior, would warrant at least a month of facing the wall.

"Hmph, if you dare to trouble us again, don't blame this Venerable One for cleaning house. Get out!"

A voice suddenly echoed in Immortal Master Xuan Qing's mind. As the last word fell, his face changed drastically, and he retreated several steps. A wisp of an Emperor Realm expert's aura directly pressed down on him, making him extremely uncomfortable.

Seeing this, Immortal Master Xuan Qing could only nod repeatedly with a forced smile, then quickly turned and left, heading straight for the Sect's Ancestral Land.

A person who called himself 'this Venerable One' and spoke of 'cleaning house,' who looked extremely similar to the first generation Heavenly Profound Sect Old Ancestor, combined with the strange incident of the spirit tablet restoring itself earlier, Immortal Master Xuan Qing, despite all his confusion, had to believe the fact that the Old Ancestor had truly been resurrected.

"This is bad! This is bad, Revered Master! No! This is great, Revered Master!"

Immortal Master Xuan Qing scurried to his Revered Master. The forty-eighth Old Ancestor of the Heavenly Profound Sect was currently leisurely sunbathing in a reclining chair.

He had no idea what had happened.

"You brat, you're already the Sect Master, so don't be so impetuous. I handed the position of Sect Master to you precisely because of your maturity and stability. Is there anything that can't be discussed calmly? If you could be half as mature and stable as your Revered Master, your Revered Master would be at ease."

The forty-eighth Old Ancestor, Immortal Master Xuande, gently swayed his reclining chair, his face full of contentment, not taking his Disciple's words seriously at all.

Immortal Master Xuan Qing tried his best to calm his emotions.

"I think I know why the Old Ancestor's spirit tablet repaired itself."

The Old Ancestor slightly lifted his eyelids, a hint of doubt appearing on his face.

"Why?"

"The Old Ancestor has been resurrected, and he's with Li Haotian! I just went there and saw with my own eyes someone who looks exactly like the Old Ancestor..."

Immortal Master Xuan Qing hadn't finished speaking when he saw his Revered Master, who had just been spouting about maturity and stability, suddenly spring up from his reclining chair like a coiled spring.

"What! Say that again? You brat, you didn't see wrong, did you?!"

Immortal Master Xuan Qing was grabbed by the shoulders and vigorously shaken by his Revered Master.

The latter's face was full of shock and disbelief. If anyone else had said it, he might have just laughed it off, but these words came from his Disciple's mouth.

He wouldn't have entrusted the position of Sect Master to his Disciple if he didn't have absolute trust in him.

"What he says is true. This Venerable One, Lin Tianxuan, has indeed achieved Rebirth through some means."

A calm voice rang in their ears. Looking in the direction of the sound, a young man had appeared there at some point, slowly turning to look at the two, his eyes carrying a hint of detachment from the mundane world.

"I thought I would never have a chance to return after perishing during Undergoing Tribulation, but..."

Lin Tianxuan's lips curled into a smile. Everything around him felt so familiar.

This used to be his residence. Since his departure, it had been called the Ancestral Land.

Both men's bodies stiffened abruptly, then quickly straightened, dropping straight to their knees.

"The seventeenth generation Disciple of Heavenly Profound Sect greets Old Ancestor!"

"The nineteenth generation Disciple of Heavenly Profound Sect greets Old Ancestor!"

The two knelt on the ground, kowtowing to their Old Ancestor.

Lin Tianxuan did not stop them. He came here only to warn the two.

"My current identity is an Elder of Spirit Gathering Peak. I hope you won't go looking for trouble at Spirit Gathering Peak in the future."

Immortal Master Xuan Qing's eyes darted quickly.

"Old Ancestor, if you don't mind, I can make you the Chief of Spirit Gathering Peak, and I guarantee that your life will absolutely not be disturbed."

Immortal Master Xuan Qing's words were very clever. He didn't make any demands, but he wanted to forcefully bind the other party to the Heavenly Profound Sect forever.

This was equivalent to a selfless contribution, seeking no return. But in reality, as long as the other party could be kept within the Sect, they would act if the Sect ever faced disaster.

Lin Tianxuan shook his head. Li Haotian did not allow him to expose their relationship, and he also dared not use his former authority to usurp his Revered Master's current status.

Not to mention the Heavenly Dao suppression above him, he couldn't even fathom Li Haotian's background and Cultivation. To bring someone who had been dead for so long back to life, with all their former strength and greatly increased Lifespan, such means could be called astonishing. Even a Grand Unity Golden Immortal descending to the mortal world would absolutely be unable to do it.

Even the Immortal Emperor of the legendary Immortal Realm did not possess such terrifying means.

He dared not imagine what astonishing secret art Li Haotian had used to pull him from the river of history. If not for some major event about to occur, the other party probably wouldn't have acted.

He naturally interpreted it as a great change about to happen, and the other party was currently accumulating strength for the Human Race.

He knew that even as a chess piece, he was willing. To be reborn was already a great favor to him.

If there was a chance for Ascension in the future, perhaps he would try it.

"You two don't need to be like this. Heavenly Profound Sect was founded by my own hands. If anything happens, I will naturally act. From now on, don't come to Spirit Gathering Peak looking for trouble. Don't cause me trouble, and don't cause yourselves trouble."

After speaking, Lin Tianxuan's figure flickered and disappeared from the spot. He had already returned to the kitchen, busying himself with clearing the dishes.

Immortal Master Xuan Qing and his Revered Master looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment.

The Old Ancestor's return filled them with excitement, but also some apprehension. An Old Ancestor who had died many years ago suddenly appeared. Both of them had a premonition that a major event was about to happen!

If it weren't for the invasion of the strange alien race back then, Spirit Gathering Peak wouldn't have had its Dao lineage shattered.

Immortal Master Wushang used his life to firmly defend this pure land. Without his fierce intervention, countless common people would have died, but the price was his own demise, with all his Disciples gone, and Spirit Gathering Peak declined ever since.

"It seems the world will not be peaceful lately. As the Sect Master of Heavenly Profound Sect, make preparations early."

Immortal Master Xuande lay back in his reclining chair, the earlier laziness gone, instead sitting in a daze. When he first joined the Sect, Lin Tianxuan had already undergone Undergoing Tribulation for a thousand years, and his legends still circulated within the Sect.