To this man, the brief wait felt incomparably long. At last, light flashed across the courtyard gate, and it silently slid inward.
The young disciple did not dare delay and quickly entered the courtyard.
The courtyard was not large, but it was elegantly arranged, dotted with exotic flowers and strange grasses, while a spiritual spring murmured nearby.
Beneath an ancient tea tree whose canopy spread like a pavilion, beside a white jade table, a young man in a pale blue robe held a spiritual jade teacup and calmly sampled the fragrant tea swirling with spiritual energy.
This man was Li Congjian, one of the outstanding Fifteenth Order disciples of Emerald Screen Peak's current generation.
"Senior Brother Li! Something terrible has happened!" The young disciple practically ran to the stone table. Without even stopping to salute, he hurriedly cried out.
Li Congjian's hand holding the teacup paused almost imperceptibly. His brows furrowed slightly as he looked up at the newcomer, a trace of displeasure in his eyes. His voice remained even. "Junior Brother Wang, what has you so flustered? Speak slowly."
He had assumed it was some trivial dispute among the peak's disciples, or perhaps the sect had issued a somewhat unusual mission.
Junior Brother Wang caught his breath and spoke at a frantic pace. "It's Senior Brother Wei and Senior Sister Cao. They've returned, and... and they brought back a great many people. They're handling the procedures at the Hall of Affairs and intend to have all of them join our Dan Chen Sect!"
When Li Congjian heard that Wei Zhongqian and Cao Feiyu had brought people back, his expression returned to calm. He merely said, "Then they must have happened upon and rescued cultivators from some plane struck by catastrophe while traveling outside. Such matters may be uncommon, but