A young cultivator in the servant robes of the Array Dao Academy hurried into the main hall with quick, small steps, holding a jade slip that emitted a hazy glow in both hands. He respectfully addressed the white-robed, sharp-eyed cultivator ahead of him, "Elder Tuoba, a message has arrived from afar."
Tuoba Hongyi reached out and took the jade slip. After reading the inscription on its surface, he said in a voice like a great bell, "Fellow Daoist Zixu, a message has come from the Myriad Manifestations Palace."
He then emphasized, "An urgent message. I think you need to read it at once."
Hearing this, Song Changsheng could not help frowning. The Myriad Manifestations Palace knew of his whereabouts and ordinarily would not send him a message. If it was anything out of the ordinary, then it could only concern the Song Clan.
There was a high probability that someone from the Song Clan had entrusted the Myriad Manifestations Palace to send the message. Something particularly urgent must have happened.
Song Changsheng hurried forward and accepted the jade slip. The moment he saw the words "Bai Zhengchun's body dead and Dao vanished," a faint wave of dizziness washed over him, leaving his mind dazed.
Among the elders of Sunset City, aside from Mu Guibai, no one had helped him more than Bai Zhengchun. Bai Zhengchun had repeatedly come to his aid, and they had once fought side by side.
They had been elder and junior, but they had also been comrades who had faced life and death together. To Song Changsheng, Bai Zhengchun's fall was no different from losing a close relative.
Most crucially, even his remains had not been brought back to Sunset City.
"If Yuechan finds out..."
Song Changsheng's heart weighed heavily. Compared to him, Zhuang Yuechan's bond