"The jade slip is authentic. It bears Fellow Daoist Rong's Secret Seal, enough to prove that he was not coerced."
After reading the jade slip, Xuan Kongzi's expression immediately relaxed.
"What exactly happened to him? Not only did he fail to come himself, he even casually shoved someone else over here!"
Miao Hu's face darkened, and her tone was quite displeased.
That was understandable. After all, the Rong cultivator had handled this matter rather inappropriately.
"He said that the Void Refinement ancestor in his clan suffered a mishap during cultivation and may not have long to live, so he had no choice but to return."
As Xuan Kongzi spoke, he handed over the jade slip for everyone to read.
"That is understandable. However, may I ask where Fairy Ye cultivated previously?"
With the Void Refinement ancestor of his clan critically ill, the Rong cultivator, as a Spirit Transformation Late-stage cultivator, naturally had to rush back at once. Not only did he need to guard against opportunists who might emerge, but he also had to compete with his clanmates for power and profit.
Chi Yangzi found the man's actions perfectly reasonable, but being casually saddled with an unfamiliar female cultivator still made everyone uncomfortable.
Yet even if they wanted to make trouble, they first had to clarify her background.
"This humble one comes from the Ye Family within the Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor Realm. It is merely a small clan, so it is hardly strange if you fellow Daoists have never heard of it."
Ye Ying answered quite cooperatively.
However, that was undoubtedly a meaningless answer.
The human race was divided among the Three Sovereigns Land, and the Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor Realm was naturally vast beyond measure. There were countless aristocratic families surnamed Ye. Unless a family possessed an integration