Qingmu Mountain.
On a desolate trail, Qin Qingxuan pointed at the buildings half-hidden among the trees in the distance and said, "That is Zi Xiao Temple."
Wang Chen nodded without speaking.
Qingmu Mountain lay thirty li southwest of Great Ye City. It was a grand mountain blanketed in dense forests and blessed with beautiful scenery. It was said that quite a few accomplished cultivators lived in seclusion there, quietly cultivating.
There were hundreds of Daoist temples and Cave Mansions, large and small.
Zi Xiao Temple was one of them.
This Daoist temple was little known among the common folk of the imperial capital, with few people aware of its existence. But according to Qin Qingxuan, many high-ranking officials and nobles from the city came every year to make offerings and listen to its teachings.
Zi Xiao Temple had stood for more than a century. Though its power was far inferior to that of the Great Dao Palace, its connections ran extraordinarily deep.
The person Qin Qingxuan had asked Wang Chen to help deal with was none other than the Temple Master of Zi Xiao Temple, Grand Celestial Master Zhang Shuocheng!
Setting Rogue Cultivators aside, orthodox cultivators of the Dao lineage could be divided by cultivation into Daoist acolytes, Daoists, Celestial Masters, Grand Celestial Masters, and Dao Patriarchs.
For Zhang Shuocheng to bear the title of Grand Celestial Master, his strength was naturally no trifling matter.
But Qin Qingxuan suspected that he was very likely a great demon!
Possessing a host body was the most common means by which Heavenly Demons infiltrated the Cangqing Realm. Since ancient times, countless people had had their bodies seized by fiends and demons, who then brought calamity upon the world. Many among them had once been heroes and great men.
Although humanity in the Cangqing