"You want the three of us to leave the Forbidden Zone?"
The three Half-Step Ancestors froze.
"Fellow Daoist Zixiao... are you serious?"
"Would I lie about this? I've come to you for help. Do you think I'd be playing a joke on you?"
Seeing that the Purple Firmament Ancestor did not seem to be joking, the Black-robed Elder drew a deep breath. "Fellow Daoist Zixiao, let's speak plainly. Half-Step Ancestors rarely leave the Forbidden Zone. What happens outside it is no longer worth our attention."
"Yet now you want the three of us to go out, just to find one person."
"Heh. Can you tell us who's so important that all three of us must leave the Forbidden Zone to look for him?"
The Purple Firmament Ancestor shook his head.
"To tell you the truth, I don't know who he is either."
"All I know is that someone outside the Forbidden Zone drew on a trace of the Gate of Myriad Wonders' power from afar and used it to peer directly into the Forbidden Zone from Obsidian Mountain, in the southwest of the Primordial Land."
"What?"
"Something like that happened?"
The Black-robed Elder and the other two were astonished.
"Even we can't directly draw on the Gate of Myriad Wonders' power, yet someone outside the Forbidden Zone managed it? Fellow Daoist Zixiao, surely you're not playing a joke on us?"
"Sigh... you still don't trust me. You actually think I'm joking. I dare swear to the Gate of Myriad Wonders that every word I've said is true. If even one word is false, may I never reach the Ancestral Realm in this lifetime."
"Hiss..."
The Black-robed Elder and the other two sucked in sharp breaths.
None of them had expected the Purple Firmament Ancestor to swear an oath to the