To achieve immortality, I cultivate using Qi Luck

If it weren’t for the fact that Taiping Dao’s stabilizing force, Elder Taishang Qing Guanzi, and the incumbent School Leader Song Xiren of Changqing Immortal Sect were close confidants with an intimate relationship, able to soothe the heart of Changqing Immortal Sect,

at this point, the two sects might have already been rife with conflict, on the verge of coming to blows.

Qing Guanzi acted as the lubricant, easing the increasingly dry camaraderie between them, maintaining superficial stability.

But no lubricant, however slick, could solve all issues.

In recent years, the relationship between Changqing Immortal Sect and Taiping Dao had also gradually become more distant.

The most obvious example was the disciples of Taiping Dao who ventured out had rarely visited the territory of the Changqing Immortal Sect in the north anymore.

Not just at the top tiers, even at the grassroots level, the two Immortal Sects had been drifting apart.

This trend had caused great worry and unease among the higher echelons of Changqing Immortal Sect.

They had always wanted to make some changes.

Otherwise, if Taiping Dao and Jiuzhou Immortal Gate were to join forces, collaborating against them, the situation would be quite unfavorable.

But with Yi Dancheng of Taiping Dao, leaning towards Jiuzhou, as the leader, even if Changqing Immortal Sect wanted to improve relations, it was very troublesome, fraught with difficulties.

Some actions hadn’t even been taken before they were prematurely doomed.

Therefore, despite their eagerness, they could only contain it and wait for an opportunity.

Fortunately, heaven helps those who help themselves.

It didn’t take very long, just over three hundred years, and the opportunity truly arrived.

Yi Dancheng intended to step down, passing the leadership to another, to focus on cultivating in solitude, attempting to breakthrough to Earth Immortal.

Although the prospect of such a Jiuzhou-leaning individual later achieving the breakthrough and becoming an Earth Immortal was not good news for Changqing Immortal Sect,

the difficulty of such a breakthrough was immense, with hardly one in ten Human Immortals succeeding.

Even if everything went smoothly, it would be difficult without several hundred to nearly a thousand years.

Yi Dancheng’s potential issue was a matter for the future.

However, the new School Leader of Taiping Dao was a concern for now.

As long as they could grasp this new School Leader, establishing a good relationship, the current trend of Taiping Dao drawing closer to Jiuzhou Immortal Gate might be turned around.

Under the new leadership, might they take a harsh turn and lean towards their Changqing Immortal Sect?

With this thought, Yang Jihua came.

This True Person, prominently nurtured by Changqing Immortal Sect and with close relations to Taiping Dao, was here to accomplish it all.

"School Leader Lu, I am Yang Jihua; might I have a word in private?"

Upon seeing Lu Yuan’s gaze turning towards him, Yang Jihua stepped forward and took the initiative to extend an invitation.

Opportunities and allies couldn’t be waited for.

To seize an opportunity, to win over allies, one had to make the first move.

Before the Jiuzhou Immortal Gate’s deceivers could confound him, he intended to befriend this new School Leader, making him one of their own.

That’s what Yang Jihua thought.

"Master Yang’s reputation precedes him, and I have long wanted to meet with True Person. How could I decline True Person’s invitation?"

Hearing the invitation, Lu Yuan glanced at Zhen Xuan in the distance, who still hadn’t made a move, and scoffed in his heart, deciding to give him a shock.

If the fish doesn’t bite the bait, let it be hungry and acquire the sense of crisis; that’s when it will take the initiative.

And Yang Jihua was precisely such a medium.

Let Zhen Xuan see that he was leaning towards Changqing Immortal Sect and see if that made him anxious.

Although he decided to gradually foster good relations with Jiuzhou, relations with Changqing Immortal Sect couldn’t be neglected either.

It was still essential to maintain a harmonious relationship with them until fully developed.

And so it was.

Under Zhen Xuan’s watchful eye, Lu Yuan and Yang Jihua, laughing and talking, headed towards a secluded place.