Time flew by. Beneath what appeared to be a scene of blooming flowers and a full moon, more than one undercurrent was surging in the shadows.
Dugu Zixuan, who had remained at Fairy Cloud Peak, suddenly vanished.
To be precise, she had been forcibly abducted by an old man.
No one knew what kind of person could so easily abduct a Dao Integration powerhouse.
And do so without causing any disturbance or meeting much resistance.
"Y-you... who are you?" Looking at the hunched back before her, Dugu Zixuan was utterly dumbfounded for a moment.
She had merely been walking from the rear mountain toward the front, intending to check on her daughters-in-law's cultivation progress.
Though each of those young daughters-in-law stood among the best of their peers in terms of cultivation, as their mother-in-law, she still needed to urge them on a little more.
Even if they could not advance as quickly as Lin Heng, they could not fall far behind.
Yet halfway there, everything before her eyes went dark, as if someone had thrown a sack over her head.
Her Divine Sense had been sealed, and she could not mobilize even a trace of True Yuan within her body. Then she had been brought to this strange place.
It could not really be called strange. This had originally been lodging provided by the Immortal Academy Hall for visiting disciples.
Faced with her alarm and confusion, the hunched old man merely slowly turned around. With an incomparably stern expression, his aged eyes solemnly looked her up and down.
"As the Hall Master of the Ten Directions Hall, you should know how to remain unruffled in the face of affairs and sit unmoved even with beauty in your arms... The first thing you should have done after regaining your freedom was