Haohui and Haoqing exchanged a glance, then turned to Yunxi.
"When did this happen?"
"When I was swept into the Misty Snow Region within the Polar Gale Zone and fought the evil cultivators for control of the Secret Realm, the evil cultivator I fought said it.
At the time, I did not understand what he meant. I thought he was trying to make us give up resisting. Now it seemed that because the Evil God's body was sealed in the Weiyu Realm, he would rather self-destruct than let me search his soul."
Now that Yunxi had connected all the pieces, she understood their true meaning.
Hao Yan's phoenix eyes narrowed dangerously.
"So the Huaxian Sect knew that the Evil God's body was sealed away. They believed the fall of the Weiyu Realm was only a matter of time, which was why they took such a huge risk to leave themselves a way out. The reason they had not acted was probably because the Upper Realm was unstable."
Yunxi keenly seized upon the crucial point and immediately asked:
"Master said we have been cut off from the Upper Realm for a long time. Did something happen there? Who sent the news back? The Old Ancestor of the Haoran Sect?"
This time, Haohui answered Yunxi.
"It was the Old Ancestor of the Famous Sword Sect. He must have forcibly sent his Lifebound Sword down at the moment of his death. That was how news of the trouble in the Upper Realm was brought back, along with the warning that we must guard the Weiyu Realm well.
"We wanted to arrange for someone to ascend and investigate, but Mingjia went to seek out Feng Fen of the Tianyun Sect. He said that once the crisis in the Misty Snow Region was completely resolved,