"Brother Bi, what did that unfamiliar fellow cultivator want with you? Was he one of those Devilbreak Sect scoundrels looking for trouble?"
Bi Dan waved a hand, a relieved smile appearing on his face.
"No. He called himself Jinghe. He used to be a neutral rogue cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Realm. He didn't want to get dragged into the Righteous-Demonic War, so he hid away somewhere remote to cultivate. He recently succeeded in Core Formation, and when he heard the two sides had stopped fighting, he came back."
"Jinghe?" His companion repeated the name. It was utterly unfamiliar; he couldn't place it at all.
Bi Dan smiled. "His name doesn't matter. Rogue cultivators are all like that, hiding their heads and showing their tails. But a good friend of his used to be a Flying Cloud Stream disciple. When he heard Flying Cloud Stream had been destroyed, he came to ask me for the details. If you think about it, we share a common enemy."
"I see!"
Realization dawned on his companion, who then sighed.
"Who could have imagined that the renowned Flying Cloud Stream would be reduced to ashes overnight?"
Bi Dan was filled with regret as well.
If Flying Cloud Stream's master, Flying Cloud Child, had not vanished for decades, leaving such a vast power without anyone to lead it, a Nascent Soul Upper Sect would never have fallen so far.
It was just a pity about his younger sister...
"True Person, I've found out everything."
Sang Jinghe stood respectfully behind Luo Chen and recounted what he had learned, leaving nothing out.
"To settle the strife within the Human Race as quickly as possible, the Azure Sea Alliance launched a sweeping counterattack thirty years ago. Without the Penglai Immortal Sect's support, the Devilbreak Sect lost ground at