The group of elders chatted with Exalted Master Jin while Daoist Tian Hua occasionally chimed in with a few words.
As they chatted, they waited for Su Mo to arrive.
However, after waiting for a full 30 minutes, Su Mo was still nowhere to be seen.
"Elder Jin Wushang, where is your disciple? Is he not in Taisheng City? "Someone asked curiously.
"He is in the mansion!" Elder Jin Wushang shook his head. He knew that Wu Shan had just returned. In fact, anyone who stepped into Jin Wushang's mansion would not be able to escape his senses.
"Then why is he not here yet?" Saint Tian Jue asked with a frown. He was not worried that Jin Wushang would play tricks on him. After all, no one could take the Dao Beard Fruit Tree for themselves. Otherwise, they would be courting death.
Jin Wushang used his Spiritual Consciousness to scan Wu Shan's palace and found that Lin Ya was waiting in front of the secret room.
After thinking about it, Jin Wushang guessed the reason. Wu Shan might have swallowed the Dao Beard Fruit and was comprehending the law and breaking through the bottleneck of the realm. That was why Lin Ya did not stop cultivating immediately.
"Everyone, Wu Shan is in seclusion. Please wait for a while." Jin Wushang said loudly.
The moment he said that, everyone was shocked and their faces darkened.
All of them felt greatly humiliated.
They were the chief elders of the various branches and they were at the Great Completion Realm. Yet, they had to wait for a Rank 9 nobody to come out of seclusion.
That was a humiliation to them.
If Wu Shan was in seclusion for three to five years, or even longer, were they supposed to wait for three to five years?
Even Daoist Tian Hua's face twitched. He felt that Jin Wushang had gone overboard. It was not a good thing for the Taisheng Branch to offend so many people at once.
"Elder Jin Wushang, you are too much!"
"You are ridiculous!"
"Please get Wu Shan to hand over the Dao Beard Fruit Tree. If not, don't blame us for using force!"
Many elders spoke up and they looked unfriendly. Since the matter concerned the Dao Beard Fruit Tree, even if they fought, the headquarters would not blame them.
"Then, everyone, follow me!" Elder Jin Wushang sighed helplessly. He did not dare to offend so many people. With that, he stood up and walked towards Su Mo's palace.
When the elders saw this, they stood up and followed.
Soon, the crowd arrived at Su Mo's palace. More than 300 people filled the small palace to the brim.
"Master, Junior Brother is in seclusion. He should be at a crucial moment!" Lin Ya said to Jin Wushang when she saw that he had personally brought the elders to the palace.
Although he was reporting to Venerable Jin, he was actually telling the other elders.
This made everyone understand that it wasn't that she didn't summon Wu Shan, but that Wu Shan was at a critical juncture of his isolation.
"Mm!" Jin Wushang nodded slightly.
"Elder Jin Wu, quickly summon him!" Esteemed Tian Jue said loudly.
"Alright!"
Elder Jin Wu nodded and said loudly, "Wu Shan, how much longer do you need to come out of seclusion?"
Elder Jin Wu's voice was like an invisible sharp sword that pierced through the stone door of the secret chamber and into the secret chamber.
He did not ask Su Mo to come out directly. Instead, he asked Su Mo how long he needed.
"Soon!"
After a while, Su Mo's voice rang out from the secret chamber.
"Everyone, you've heard him. Wu Shan said that he'll be out soon. Let's wait for a while more!" Elder Jin Wu said loudly as he looked at the crowd.
The crowd frowned, but they could only wait for a while. They couldn't fall out with Elder Jin Wu over such a small matter.
Thus, the crowd of elders waited patiently in the palace.
This wait lasted for an hour.
"Elder Jin Wu, it's been an hour. How much longer does Wu Shan need?" Someone else said.
"That's right. My time is precious, and I don't have time to waste here!" Another elder said.
"Alright!" Elder Jin Wu nodded and asked Su Mo when he would come out of seclusion.
"Soon!" Su Mo's voice rang out from the secret chamber again.
Upon hearing this, the elders' faces darkened. Su Mo had said that he would come out soon in an hour, but it was still soon now. How long did he mean by "soon"?
"Wu Shan, hurry up and come out. We don't have time to wait for you here!" Esteemed Tian Jue shouted angrily. His voice boomed like thunder, causing the entire palace to shake violently.
However, there was no response from the secret chamber. This enraged Esteemed Tian Jue.
"Tian Jue, don't you dare cause trouble!" Seeing this, Esteemed Jin Wu shouted coldly. "If Wu Shan goes berserk, I'll fight you to the death."
"Jin Wu, is this kid messing with us?" Esteemed Tian Jue's face darkened as he argued with Esteemed Jin Wu.
"Wu Shan is in seclusion. He must have consumed the Beard Dao Fruit and is at the critical moment of a breakthrough. How can you ruin his progress again!" Esteemed Jin Wu said angrily.
"Ruin his progress? How can a Level Nine martial artist go berserk so easily? " Esteemed Tian Jue sneered. With Wu Shan's cultivation, it was impossible for him to go berserk under normal circumstances.
Rumble!
At this moment, the door of the secret chamber slowly opened with a dull thud.
Immediately after, Su Mo's figure strode out.
"Greetings, Master!" Su Mo's face was slightly pale. After he walked out of the secret chamber, he closed the stone door and bowed to Esteemed Jin Wu. As for Ling Chang, she did not come out of the secret chamber.
In an instant, all eyes fell on Su Mo.
Although Su Mo's name had spread far and wide, only a few of the elders had seen Su Mo at Daoist Tian Hua's birthday banquet.
Most of them did not know who Su Mo was.
As such, many of them were sizing Su Mo up. They wanted to know why Su Mo was so powerful.
However, in their eyes, the aura in Su Mo's body was indeed powerful. Other than the Chaotic Source that he cultivated, there was nothing special about him.
"Wu Shan, what's wrong?" Esteemed Jin Wu frowned and asked when he saw Su Mo's pale face.
"Master, I was about to break through to the next realm. However, Elder Tian Jue's roar caused my Qi and blood to reverse. This caused me to fail and I suffered some internal injuries." Su Mo said solemnly.
Of course, he was completely spouting nonsense. His cultivation was not yet at the stage to break through to the next realm.
He had said that because he wanted Esteemed Tian Jue to bleed.
After all, Esteemed Tian Jue had almost killed him at the birthday banquet. Now that Esteemed Tian Jue was so arrogant, he had to pay the price.
"What?"
Esteemed Jin Wu's face instantly changed. He immediately looked at Esteemed Tian Jue and said angrily, "Tian Jue, look at what you have done!"
"This …!"
Esteemed Tian Jue's face twitched. He naturally did not believe Su Mo's words. He had not used much of his strength when he shouted just now and it was impossible for him to have hurt Su Mo.
Furthermore, although Su Mo's face was pale, his physical aura was stable and full of energy. He did not look injured at all.
"Wu Shan, don't slander me. I will not be fooled by you." Esteemed Tian Jue said coldly as he suppressed the anger in his heart.
"Slander me?"
Su Mo sneered and said, "I have consumed the Xu Dao Fruit and am at a critical juncture in breaking through the bottleneck of the Martial Realm. Your shout interrupted my breakthrough and caused me to fail. How dare you accuse me of slandering you?"
"You can't break through to the next realm!" Esteemed Tian Jue sneered. Although the Xu Dao Fruit could loosen the bottleneck of the realm, it did not mean that it could break through to the next realm.
"Tian Jue, because of you, my disciple, Wu Shan, has failed to break through to the next realm. How about this? Compensate him a little and I will let bygones be bygones." Esteemed Jin Wu said coldly.
"Jin Wu!"
Esteemed Tian Jue was enraged and shouted coldly, "How dare you and Wu Shan conspire to blackmail me!"
Esteemed Tian Jue was furious. He was really furious.
First, his disciple Zang Renjie was killed, and now the murderer was trying to blackmail him. How could he not be angry?
"Are you not willing to compensate me?" Esteemed Jin Wu asked coldly.
"Absolutely not." Esteemed Tian Jue shook his head firmly. It was more likely that Wu Shan would compensate him. How could he compensate Wu Shan? That was ridiculous.
"Very well. Tomorrow, I will go to the Alliance Headquarters and report to Lord Fa Wu. I will tell him that you, Esteemed Tian Jue, have humiliated my disciple."
"You … Jin Wu, you are too much!"
Esteemed Tian Jue was so furious that his chest was about to explode. Who didn't know that Lord Fa Wu was Jin Wu's Master? Weren't you using your power to suppress him?
Everyone knew that Esteemed Tian Jue's backing was his Master, Lord Fa Wu of the Alliance Headquarters.
Esteemed Tian Jue didn't have a Master of the Supremacy level.
There were only 36 Supremacies in the entire Ancient Cloud Star Alliance, and the disciples of these Supremacies were only slightly more than a hundred.
That was why most of the Head Elders of the divisions didn't have a Master. Or rather, their Master was just an ordinary expert and they had already surpassed him.
That was why Esteemed Tian Jue's expression didn't change when he faced hundreds of Head Elders.
That was also why the Elders were still polite when they came to Jin Wu Manor.
Within the palace, the Elders all had different expressions. They weren't stupid. The current situation was that Esteemed Tian Jue was blackmailing Esteemed Tian Jue.
Furthermore, he was openly blackmailing Esteemed Tian Jue without any hesitation.
When Su Mo saw this, he was laughing to death. In actual fact, he wouldn't be able to break through to the next rank in a short period of time. He didn't come out earlier because he hadn't fully comprehended the Law of Life and Death in the Xu Dao Fruit.
Now that he had come out, he had comprehended the Law of Life and Death and had successfully reached the Grand Completion Realm of Rank 1.
Since Esteemed Tian Jue was so arrogant, Su Mo wanted to make fun of him. However, he didn't expect his Master to be so helpful and directly start blackmailing Esteemed Tian Jue.
Su Mo was naturally happy about this.
Granted, Su Mo wasn't afraid of offending Esteemed Tian Jue. Ever since he had killed Zang Renjie, he had already offended Esteemed Tian Jue. He just had to be wary of him in the future.
First, he had to set a small goal. for example, 1 second.
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