Although he felt uneasy, Qi Yunsheng did not receive Fang Xiao's rebuke.
"This matter cannot be blamed on you alone. I bear some responsibility as well."
Fang Xiao sighed.
At those words, Qi Yunsheng's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.
"My lord, could the person rumored outside to have founded the Profound Jade Sect alone be you?"
How could he have imagined that his lord would be so audacious as to go this far?
He had merely advised Fang Xiao not to approach the Life Forbidden Zone, but he had never said the Profound Jade Sect was a place one could enter and leave at will.
Yet when he recalled Fang Xiao's origins, he found it understandable again.
As a cultivator, Fang Xiao had dared to hide alone within Xuan Yan City on the Realm Battlefield. His Spirit Wine business had grown bigger and bigger right beneath the True Martial Heavenly Sect's nose, and afterward, he had even smuggled into the Tianhuang Realm with him.
What was there that his lord did not dare to do?
Merely infiltrating a sect without a Body Integration Realm expert in residence seemed understandable enough.
Of course, that did not mean it had been easy.
Even with the Profound Jade Sect's Body Integration Realm expert absent, its mountain-guarding grand formation was a genuine Seventh Order formation, and several God-Seeing Realm experts remained stationed within the sect.
Yet Fang Xiao had infiltrated it without a sound and ultimately retreated unscathed. Qi Yunsheng admitted that he could not have accomplished that alone.
Previously, he had been subdued by Fang Xiao's subordinate with the Forbidden Dao Spirit Pearl and later sworn an oath, leaving him no chance to exchange blows. He had only assumed Fang Xiao possessed an enormous background, while his strength might not necessarily