Chapter 561

"Do you think he can succeed in the Second Dragon Ascension?" Zhou Yong looked toward Tao Huaijin.

"I don't." Tao Huaijin shook his head.

Zhou Yong's eyes widened: "Then why are you still recruiting him?"

He had thought Tao Huaijin truly held Xu Yang in high regard, and that was why he wanted to invest in Xu Yang early to help him with the Second Dragon Ascension.

Tao Huaijin said: "I want to return to Yunzhou, but in this godforsaken place, he is the only one worth recruiting. Young Marquis, Li Chuyang, and those people have better prospects, but I cannot recruit them.

I'm taking a gamble. If I lose, at worst I'll be docked a few years of salary; if I succeed, I can return to Yunzhou. If I keep staying in this place, I'll be ruined."

If it came to who he truly favored, he naturally preferred Li Chuyang, Jiang Fan, and Yan Guiyun, but not everyone could be recruited by the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, nor did he take a liking to just anyone.

He wasn't certain if Xu Yang could succeed in the Second Dragon Ascension, but if he obtained the Myriad Treasures Pavilion's Dragon Ascension resources, the odds would be much higher.

If he missed out on Xu Yang, he would have to stay in this place for another seven or eight years before having a chance to leave. He didn't want to wait any longer; a gamble was fine.

"Since you don't think he'll succeed, you still call this a gamble? You are simply doing what you know cannot be done." Zhou Yong shook his head.

He also didn't think Xu Yang could succeed in the Second Dragon Ascension; his foundation and cultivation time were still lacking.

In two and a half years, Xu Yang might not be able to break through to Heavenly Origin, and even if he could, it didn't mean he would succeed in the Second Dragon Ascension.

Heavenly Origin cultivation was merely the threshold for the Second Dragon Ascension; it didn't mean success just by breaking through to Heavenly Origin.

Tao Huaijin smiled: "On the surface, Xu Yang's chances of Dragon Ascension aren't great, but don't forget, his growth potential is astonishing. When you first met him, could you have imagined he would become one of the Ten Elites, win a top-three spot in the Outer Sect Grand Competition, reach Minor Success in Marrow Cleansing at this age, and become the fifth of the Profound Heaven Sect's Ten Elites?"

What he was betting on was Xu Yang's terrifying growth potential; his talent seemed as if it were still growing.

Just when many people thought this was all there was to Xu Yang, he became even more of a genius.

"That's true."

Zhou Yong pondered for a moment and was suddenly speechless.

When they first met, he never imagined Xu Yang could grow to his current level. Xu Yang seemed different from most martial artists, always full of surprises.

He, the person who first favored Xu Yang, hadn't noticed these things, yet Tao Huaijin had. He felt he had missed another opportunity.

According to Tao Huaijin's analysis, it was truly worth taking a gamble on Xu Yang. Of course, the consequences of losing the bet were also severe; Tao Huaijin was simply desperate to return to Yunzhou and was staking everything on one throw.

Tao Huaijin left with a smile, went to the back hall of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, and fetched pen and ink. He began to write, and one by one, pieces of information about Xu Yang were recorded on paper. After finishing, he tucked the note away and placed it on a carrier pigeon.

"Go on, whether I can return to Yunzhou depends on you."

The carrier pigeon flapped its wings and took flight from his hand, soaring straight into the clouds, soon disappearing above the sky of Qingyang City, turning into a black dot that vanished on the horizon.

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In the underground elixir room, the furnace fire was burning brightly, and various medicinal herbs were being tossed into the furnace by Xu Yang.

He had already begun refining elixirs.

As for the promise to become a guest elder of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, he didn't think much about it for the time being. Whether this matter was beneficial to him would be known after midnight.

If the panel showed no reaction, it would prove that the Myriad Treasures Pavilion affair was a trap, and he would find a way to decline it then.

Soon, all the medicinal materials were tossed into the furnace, and he covered it, beginning to control the fire.