While Qin Fengming was risking his life refining the fire crow's body in Dragon Flame Valley, a black-bearded old man atop a towering mountain shrouded in crimson clouds at the valley's edge suddenly opened his tightly shut eyes. Two piercing gleams flashed from them.
"Twenty days have passed. Why has that Human Realm cultivator still not appeared? Could he never have come here at all? Hmph! Dark Silence Hall dared deceive me. On the fifteenth of this month, I will confront them and demand an explanation!"
The old man's gaze sharpened, his expression darkening to the extreme as a vicious mutter escaped his lips.
Had Qin Fengming been there, he would naturally have recognized this old man. He was precisely the peak Ghost Lord Great Cultivator Qin Fengming had seen at Dark Silence Hall.
Qin Fengming had no idea that, by heading straight into the depths of Dragon Flame Valley after leaving Dark Silence Hall, he had evaded a Great Cultivator's interception.
By the time Qin Fengming returned from within Dragon Flame Valley, that Great Cultivator had entered Dark Silence Hall once more, then left without lingering, flying straight toward the Ghost Talisman Sect.
During his second visit to Dark Silence Hall, that ancient institution, which claimed to know everything, had been unable to answer his question. They, too, were baffled. Qin Fengming had clearly been teleported back to Dragon Flame Valley, and his destination had been only a little over a thousand li from the Great Cultivator.
Knowing the capabilities of the Ghost Talisman Sect's Great Cultivator, the people of Dark Silence Hall were certain he had sealed off every route out of the valley. Yet he had still failed to spot that Human Realm cultivator, leaving them deeply puzzled.
To compensate the Great Cultivator, however, they had no