"What could you possibly guess? Qingxiao is somewhat different from Little Qingxiao. Back then, she wasn't destroyed by the chaotic spell currents during the battle in the courtyard—she was carried away by someone. My guess is that someone deliberately created that chaos and used it to take the child away. The reason is simple: Qingxiao was separated from her mother's purest, most untainted energy, so she was born knowing the Origin-Returning Technique. We had actually guarded this secret with the utmost care, but if she suddenly used the Origin-Returning Technique on someone while still in swaddling clothes, how could we have known?" Xuan Shichen said with a bitter smile, shaking his head.
I was stunned for a moment before asking, "Sect Master Xuan, can you confirm that it wasn't Li Tianjian who sent someone to do it?"
"If he had done it, I'm afraid my wife wouldn't still be recuperating peacefully in the rear mountains... As for Little Qingxiao, she might have been taken away long ago as well, don't you think? That's why we should treasure this secret before us all the more. As for the one who took Qingxiao, perhaps it was some old immortal from the sect who had colluded with Du Xiaoxian and coveted the child's uniqueness, wanting to capture her and hand her over to the Eight Sects of the Demon Gate. Otherwise, how do you explain the cause and effect here?" Xuan Shichen said.
"If that's all there is to it, then it does make sense. But there's one thing that doesn't add up. The Little Immortal Sect of the Eight Sects of the Demon Gate should not have known at first that she was your daughter. Otherwise, they wouldn't have failed to instill in her any desire to oppose the Xichen Immortal Sect