"Looks like we really have to go to the Burial Saint Mountain Range and get to the bottom of this." Shi Zhi frowned.
"No rush." Li Zhōujūn said. "There are a few things I'd like to ask you, Brother Shi."
"Please, ask away, Azure Emperor." Shi Zhi said.
"When Shuzhu faces you, Brother Shi, does she refer to herself as this Emperor?" Li Zhōujūn asked with a smile.
"Of course not." Shi Zhi said.
"When I first met you in this body in the garden, could anyone else enter freely?" Li Zhōujūn asked again.
"When I was in charge, I ordered that no one besides me and my daughter was allowed to set foot in this garden without permission. Otherwise, they were to be killed without mercy. My daughter continued that rule." At this point, Shi Zhi's eyes widened as he looked at Li Zhōujūn. "Azure Emperor, you mean...?"
Li Zhōujūn nodded. "Since no one else is allowed to enter this garden, if Shuzhu left a letter here, it could only have been meant for you, Brother Shi. Yet Shuzhu referred to herself as this Emperor. That's truly baffling."
"But the aura on the letter is unquestionably Shuzhu's." Shi Zhi frowned. "Could some villain have forced my daughter to leave this letter? But she's a Ninth-Rank Dao Emperor herself, and few people on the Central Continent could rival her. After all, Senior Heavenly Emperor Qin once decreed that Dao Saints could not enter the Central Continent. I was only able to remain here in a Dao Saint's body because I was basking in the Azure Emperor's light.
"So only a Half-step Dao Saint could have forced my daughter to leave this letter. But among the Half-step Dao Saints on the Central Continent, aside from the outsiders Mo Xuan and Bai