Perfected Person Yun Ming shook his head. "All the major sects actually know about this. After all, our Poverty Observation Grand Evolution Formation on Poverty Observation Mountain records everything that has happened since ancient times."
"Our duty is to compile historical records—though that duty was actually seized by our ancestors from the Confucian lineage of historiography.
"Though it truly makes us hated, it was our ancestors' command, so we have no choice but to do it!"
Perhaps it was an illusion.
In any case, when Perfected Person Yun Ming uttered those final words, "no choice but to do it," his expression seemed somewhat spirited. He did not look forced at all. Rather, he seemed quite pleased.
"So that's how it is."
Li Ye nodded in understanding. "Then according to you, how do you wish to cooperate? This matter seems to benefit only our Four Seasons Sect. You must know that we would never allow our ancestor's Dao Sound and the inheritance within to fall into outsiders' hands."
"Of course I know that." Perfected Person Yun Ming spoke frankly. "Though we bear the duty of recording history, if we discover that a seal belongs to a certain sect, we must return those things.
"Moreover, when the Bagua on this Bagua Spirit Turtle's shell is truly deciphered, the corresponding sect's spiritual power will be needed for the final decryption.
"It still belongs to you—we merely hope to observe the process of deciphering the Bagua seal left behind by your ancestor on the turtle shell. This will be of great help to our Dao Path.
"So, according to our sect's intentions, we will bear the consumption of Calamity Ash and calamity qi in exchange for the lotus helping it transcend the tribulation."
It sounded as though Poverty Observation Mountain was making all the