"In specific terms... well, that is..." Mo Kongwen had barely spoken half a sentence before he shut his mouth.

"Senior, here is one million." Tu Wanghai at once signed another check and handed it to Mo Kongwen. Such a sum meant nothing to him; so long as what Mo Kongwen said proved truly useful, then the money would have been well spent.

"Very well, I will be frank with you. In the future your granddaughter will find herself a good man, and after that her life will become smooth sailing, and then... all will go well," Mo Kongwen said.

"Oh?" Tu Wanghai listened to Mo Kongwen's words and fell into thought. Though the words were rather simple, the matter had been stated clearly enough. At last Tu Wanghai nodded and said, "Doctor, my granddaughter may stay here and follow you, but how am I to find her in the future?"

"If you seek me, come to the market. As for her, you will not find her for the time being. I will send her to a place better suited for her treatment. Five years from now, once her condition has stabilized, I can take you to see her—but you must not take her away, or she will die all the same," Lin Dongfang said indifferently.

"This... very well!" Tu Wanghai gritted his teeth and answered, "Doctor, can she hold out until she is sixteen? So long as she can survive past sixteen, I will pay any price!"

Sixteen was the minimum age required for the earth-element inheritance of the Yellow Earth High Sect; only at sixteen could a girl comprehend the inheritance. That was why Tu Wanghai had asked for sixteen.

"In any case, I will do my utmost, but if you want a guarantee now, then I dare not give one," Lin Dongfang said with a shake of his head.

"Very well, Doctor, do your best!" That was all Tu Wanghai could say. After all, this was the best solution available at present...

Having settled Tu Ranran and paid the consultation fee, Tu Wanghai took Tu Qingshui and returned to the Yellow Earth High Sect. The journey left him full of sighs; never had he imagined that in such a remote place there existed two such eminent masters...

In the blink of an eye, two years passed. Tu Wanghai missed his granddaughter Tu Ranran somewhat and meant to set out once more for Miao Territory—but just then, two ruthless figures suddenly appeared in the martial world!

The appearance of these two came without the slightest warning; they simply emerged out of thin air, sweeping through all the ancient sects of the Central Plains, slaying several Heaven-Rank experts in an instant, and in one stroke making a name for themselves as the "Twin Vajra Demons." Everyone in the martial world paled at the mere mention of them.

These two, under the banner of helping experts at the peak of the late Heaven-Rank—those at the great consummation—break through to the Heavenly Dao, summoned all the late Heaven-Rank great-consummation experts of every ancient sect in the Central Plains to gather together.

Naturally, many experts refused to submit—by what right should they obey your commands? But the first stop on these two's itinerary was the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect. Of the two, one took a blow from a late Heaven-Rank great-consummation expert and came away untouched, while the other casually swung his fist and killed the sect master of the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect—the long-famous Ancestral Master Crazy Dragon, possessor of late Heaven-Rank great-consummation strength!

That Ancestral Master Crazy Dragon was the very primal spirit of the Crazy Dragon who had seized Zhong Yongliang's body. In those years he had died a wretched death beneath the fists of those two ruthless figures, becoming the first sacrifice made to warn the rest.

Afterward they went on to the Divine Fist Hall and many other ancient sects. The late Heaven-Rank great-consummation experts who followed them came to no harm; the two promised to help them set foot upon the Heavenly Dao—but once they had, they must do certain things for them.

Those who did not follow were sent down the road to the Yellow Springs. Later on, when those late Heaven-Rank great-consummation experts of the ancient sects learned the two were coming, they all greeted them with smiling faces and of their own accord offered to follow them away...

Legend had it that these two were Heavenly Dao experts, and their words naturally carried a certain credibility. Of these followers, some went willingly, some by force—in any case, they all followed the two away meekly, and afterward... not a word was ever heard of them again!

The affair was exceedingly strange. After they left, all news of them vanished from the martial world. And that year, Tu Qingsong's father, Tu Wanghai, had of his own accord invited those two to the Yellow Earth High Sect—first, because Tu Wanghai was anxious over Tu Ranran's condition; second, because he had lingered too long at the level of late Heaven-Rank great consummation, and if he did not advance to the Heavenly Dao soon, he feared he would die of old age.

Tu Wanghai did not know whether he could hold out until the day the Cloud-Rank Island plan began, and so he took the initiative to invite those two ruthless figures—the Twin Vajra Demons—to the Yellow Earth High Sect! The Yellow Earth High Sect lay far away in the Western Regions, and the two, pressed for time, had originally not intended to come; but since it was "Tu Wanghai" who invited them, they made the trip after all.

These two personages, whom other sects could not avoid fast enough, received incomparably warm hospitality at Tu Wanghai's hands!

There was no other reason: one of the Twin Vajra Demons was none other than the divine physician Lin Dongfang, who had once treated Tu Ranran!

Tu Wanghai knew this because, though he had not seen the Twin Vajra Demons with his own eyes, their portraits had already spread through every ancient sect! And naturally Tu Wanghai had obtained one as well.

When Tu Wanghai saw Lin Dongfang's familiar face in the portrait, he was struck dumb! What?! That divine physician of Miao Territory from years ago was actually a Heavenly Dao expert? No wonder he could cure Tu Ranran—and no wonder that back then, with a casual toss of one hand, he had sent Tu Qingshui flying!

Tu Qingshui saw the portrait too, and the cold sweat on his back broke out at once!

He was filled with dread. Back then he had actually cursed a Heavenly Dao expert and not been beaten to death—truly a cause for celebration! It was nothing short of... a stroke of tremendous luck!

When Lin Dongfang saw Tu Wanghai again, he merely gave a faint smile. The man beside him was Yang Qiqi's father and Wei Zhao's master! He said little, only nodding at Tu Wanghai.

Toward these two legendary Heavenly Dao experts, Tu Wanghai dared not be remiss. From a thousand li outside the sect gates he began to receive them in person, and when he saw Lin Dongfang and that Mr. Yang, he at once clasped his fists, stepped forward, and said respectfully, "Tu Wanghai, sect master of the Yellow Earth High Sect, pays his respects to the two seniors!"

"No need for such ceremony—we are hardly strangers." Lin Dongfang waved a hand. "You summoned us here because of your granddaughter, or...?"

"Senior Lin, how should I address this senior?" Tu Wanghai did not state his purpose directly, but instead respectfully and reverently inquired about the ruthless figure beside Lin Dongfang—one whose power rivaled Lin Dongfang's own, said to have cultivated external defense to the utmost limit, surely a legendary Heavenly Dao expert of the external school.

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