West of Yueyang City, within a stone pavilion high in the mountains.
As two streaks of escaping light approached from afar, they descended and revealed two figures—Song Qingming and Li Xuanyi, both clad in azure robes.
The moment they entered the pavilion, they saw a gray-robed man already waiting ahead. He rose to his feet and smiled as he waved to them.
"Greetings, Senior Disciple Brother!"
"Qingming, Little Junior Sister, you're here!"
This gray-robed man was none other than Fu Jinglong, the fellow disciple of Song Qingming and Li Xuanyi from Taiyi Sect.
After the Demon Extermination War all those years ago, Taiyi Sect had sealed its mountain and withdrawn from the world. Song Qingming had not seen him for several hundred years.
He had never expected that, while leading people to Eastern Phoenix Kingdom to aid Demon Quelling Palace against the Falling Star Sea Demon Race, he would happen to encounter Fu Jinglong, who had likewise been invited to Yueyang City.
As early as three hundred years ago, when their master Lingxu Zi broke through the realm and ascended, Senior Disciple Brother Fu Jinglong had already stepped into the Half-step Spirit Transformation realm and succeeded to the position of sect leader of Taiyi Sect.
At that time, Song Qingming had only recently formed his Nascent Soul, and the gap between their cultivation was immense.
Over these years, Fu Jinglong had inherited the strict orders left behind by his master Lingxu Zi. He had chosen to seal the mountain and live in seclusion, guarding the True Demon Seal on the island, and had essentially never left Jade Profound Island.
The reason he had come to help this time was also because He Yuliang, the sect leader of Demon Quelling Palace, had obtained the approval of Ancestor Chen Qingxuan and personally