Being a Late Bloomer in the Cultivation World

Qii Chengchu was well aware of this.

And in Qii Chengchu’s eyes, Wei Tu was this new power, a new centrist.

"Achieving Golden Core is difficult, and now we face the external crisis of a Demon Dao invasion. The Loose Immortal Alliance... may not last to see that day."

Che Gongwei’s face was etched with worry.

Although the strategy of a brilliant man like Qii Chengchu was sound—a thousand-year plan for the Loose Immortal Alliance—the Alliance faced far more than just internal crises.

The Demon Dao invasion was the true blade hanging over the Loose Immortal Alliance’s head.

"We can only take it one step at a time." Qii Chengchu shook his head and sighed. "We must guard against and resist the Demon Dao, but the internal reforms must also be carried out..."

"Perhaps the Demon Dao will stop at Jing Country."

Qii Chengchu joked.

However, Che Gongwei, who was beside him, noticed that as Qii Chengchu said this, a glimmer of hope seemed to appear in the depths of his eyes.

...

「An hour later.」

Inside his Cave Mansion, Wei Tu opened the jade box Duu Wenshu had given him that morning.

The jade box contained nearly a hundred letters—an absurdly large number.

Wei Tu took the letters out of the jade box one by one.

To Wei Tu’s surprise,

over half the signatures on the letters were from Cultivators he didn’t know, and more than twenty percent were from mere acquaintances he had only met once.

"Wealth finds relatives even in the deepest mountains." Wei Tu once again felt the profound truth of this saying.

Back in his mortal days, after he passed the imperial examination and became a Military Officer, a whole host of relatives, so distant they were practically strangers, had sent him letters asking for help securing official posts.

Back then, he had simply read the letters and burned them without a second thought.

After all, he had no ambitions of becoming a king or a conqueror.

Wei Tu casually opened a few letters signed by unfamiliar Cultivators.

As he expected, the contents of these letters were mostly attempts to curry favor with him.

A few Foundation Establishment Cultivators even wanted to present disciple-offering gifts and ask him to be their master.

’They’re all older than me.’ Wei Tu had heard of these Foundation Establishment Cultivators before. He raised an eyebrow, thinking to himself.

Besides the letters asking him to be their master, some came from minor Influences and small families offering treasures, hoping to align themselves with him and join the Loose Immortal Alliance.

Wei Tu paid them no mind.

Next, Wei Tu began going through the letters from old acquaintances.

The contents of these letters were much simpler and, for the most part, all the same.

They were all congratulatory messages on his breakthrough to the Golden Core realm.

After reading these letters, Wei Tu closed the jade box, preparing to enter Seclusion once more to study the Tier Three Talisman Master Inheritance he possessed.

But just as he stood up, he paused, thought for a moment, and sat back down. He reopened the jade box and continued to sift through the letters.

’Perhaps one of these "treasure offerings" from a stranger might actually be useful to me.’

’Going through nearly a hundred letters wouldn’t take too long anyway.’

After flipping through forty or fifty more letters...

Until—

A letter signed "Jiangwu."

"Zheng Country is about to face a great change and be abandoned by the Seven Kingdoms Righteous Alliance?" When Wei Tu read the letter’s contents, his gaze sharpened, and he froze for a moment.

The claims in the letter were vague and sounded rather alarmist.

But... Wei Tu believed it.

Because the Cultivator who wrote to him was no ordinary figure, but Zhao Jiangwu, the Golden Core Ancestor of the Qiyue Zhao Family.

Zhao Jiangwu had simply omitted his surname, "Zhao," in the signature.

’But Zhao Jiangwu is being awfully reckless. Sending me this news in an ordinary letter? Why not send a Zhao Family Cultivator to Red River Mountain to deliver the message in person?’ Wei Tu frowned after finishing the letter.

Since the Qiyue Zhao Family was able to send him this letter and reveal such a heaven-shattering secret, Wei Tu could roughly guess who was pulling the strings from behind the scenes.

He just couldn’t understand why, if they were going to tell him this monumental secret, they would use an ordinary letter.

After all, not only could an ordinary letter be easily intercepted, but there was also the risk of it being lost.

’A trip to the Zhao Family to ask them in person should clear things up.’ Wei Tu shook his head, deciding not to waste any more time guessing.

The Qiyue Zhao Family was not far from the Red River Mountain Marketplace. At his Escape Speed, it was only a two or three-day journey.