"Ask whatever you like, little friend. This old man will tell you everything I know and hold nothing back." Xiao Jianlan adopted the air of an elder chatting with a junior, which filled me with warmth. Every time I came here, I gained quite a bit of insight from Xiao Jianlan and developed more favorable feelings toward him. I couldn't tell whether I had been too wary of this old man all along or whether my instinctive defenses had gone wrong.
"I wonder what Ta Sixian's ultimate purpose was in copying the acquired Ninth Sons' ability to connect to the Heavenly Dao and using it to create the Heavenly Dao Stones. Was he merely trying to disrupt the world's peace and security, or perhaps its order? After all, however you look at it, this is nothing more than the antics of a clown. It is meaningless to the world and even more meaningless to him." I asked this because I also wanted to know what Xiao Jianlan and the purple-robed man had secretly discussed last time.
"Heh heh, I'm afraid this old man can't guess that. It involves human nature, and I don't understand Ta Sixian well enough to know what he is thinking. However, the awakening of the acquired Ninth Sons only began in recent years, whereas it had never happened before. He may well have been plotting some great undertaking. Clearly, it is something that must be completed in these recent years. What do you think Ta Sixian is planning, little friend?" Xiao Jianlan tossed another question back at me instead.
I was stunned for a moment. Of course, I had no way to answer that. Even with the clues I had been given, I had spent very few years in the territory of the Transcenders, and I