Divine Path Broken, Ashes Form Ladder.
Senior Ji Feng, was it really inevitable that you'd be involved?
Some things didn't seem connected until you started drawing links between them—then they reached far and wide.
"Physical containment of thought." The last time I'd seen that, a group of court noblewomen had all been decapitated at once, their remains eventually converging into a brain that had swollen to absurd proportions.
Later, when I attended the Larrea family's birthday banquet at Ermu Mansion Palace, I'd even happened to prove that it was the same place.
Of course, this alone seemed to prove only that the scene before me was likely related to that ancient family. I hadn't seen Old Master Ji anywhere.
But first, don't forget that the final thing we'd gained from the Bronze Lady was that excessively plain headband. It was an item that apparently only someone with Ji Clan blood could activate and receive information from.
And the research findings from our previous mission at Unseen Hill had provided even stronger evidence that this was likely part of Old Master Ji's contingency plan.
Most important of all, the Bronze Lady had appeared in the world where I'd originally lived. That alone had nearly eliminated most of the competition when it came to the question of who was responsible.
In any case, I'd been wondering why the information inside the headband had sent us to the Sea of Ashes, yet we hadn't found a single trace related to it here.
Then, right afterward, Old Master Ji had gotten restless and discreetly made his presence felt.
Had the old man been here, too?
Although this coincidence alone couldn't rule out the possibility that he'd never come in person, and had simply received some important information.
But that didn't affect the central question: