Venerable Feng Ji's words rang out, his face set with resolve. His voice was sonorous, radiating an overwhelming firmness.
Having said that, he did not continue.
Qin Fengming looked at the handsome young cultivator before him. From Venerable Feng Ji's expression, he could sense an extraordinary decisiveness and determination.
Although he did not know how Fairy Raoyun, a mighty vine demon, had rescued Venerable Feng Ji, nor how the two of them had escaped the Aoteng region, Qin Fengming could guess that the process must have been exceedingly tragic and perilous.
As for what had happened, Qin Fengming did not wish to get to the bottom of it. This was a private matter between Venerable Feng Ji and Fairy Raoyun. Pressing them too much would serve no purpose.
As for how Venerable Feng Ji had been able to activate that Root Bone branch and unleash the vine demon's powerful divine ability, Qin Fengming had already figured it out. Venerable Feng Ji had done so by borrowing the power of Fairy Raoyun's soul essence.
Fairy Raoyun and Venerable Feng Ji should both have had their physical bodies destroyed. Afterward, Qin Fengming did not know what method Venerable Feng Ji had employed to take Fairy Raoyun, who had possessed that vine root, away with him. He had then hidden their soul essences.
Later, they had fallen into Zhi Hao's hands, and the two soul essences had actually possessed Zhi Hao's body.
The secrets involved were difficult to speak of, but by now, none of it mattered to Qin Fengming and Fairy Ying Yi.
"Fellow Daoist Feng Ji, the battle between us could be said to have had no cause. Although we fought, neither of us suffered any great loss, so this Qin will not pursue the matter further. I imagine that after