"Your Exalted Venerable is joking. To the Free Star Sea, the secrets of our Ten Thousand Races Land probably don't even qualify as secrets. Besides, if I considered them secrets, how could I have used them so wholeheartedly?"
I didn't think my cultivation could make the surrounding spiritual energy as calm as still water, so I had long since prepared an excuse.
However, when I opened my eyes and met Jade Exalted Venerable's gaze, the corners of his lips curled into a smile that was not quite a smile. He clearly didn't believe me. "Heh, I'm not arrogant enough to underestimate the Sin Clan. The Free Star Sea isn't some closed-off place. Research into the origins of the Sin Clan has never ceased."
"What do you mean by that, Exalted Venerable?" I feigned curiosity.
Jade Exalted Venerable gave a grim smile and said, "All cultivators in the Free Star Sea know that the Sin Clan originated in the Land of Exile, but they don't know why it originated there. They only know that every member of the Sin Clan possesses a unique supernatural ability of their own, and the purer their Sin Blood, the more likely they are to possess the power of returning to their ancestors. This power is an innate gift, and there are some varieties that even the cultivators of the Free Star Sea would scramble for. So the practice of selecting Sin Clan members and sending them into the Scholar Sect for study has indeed existed for a very long time."
"So Exalted Venerable Jade wants to take me back to the Scholar Sect to study the talent in my body?" I put on a somewhat astonished expression.
Jade Exalted Venerable instead calmed down and said, "I do have that thought. Although I don't know what