Yun Zhi vaguely remembered worrying that something might happen to Grand Ancestor while he was out on a mission, so she had specifically sent her quick-witted junior brother and Junior Brother Meng to secretly help him.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye. How had the two of them returned safe and sound, while Grand Ancestor had ended up inside?
"What happened?"
The two scratched their heads. This really wasn't easy to explain.
Lu Yang gave the briefest explanation he could. "Here's what happened. Grand Ancestor completed his mission without a hitch. But on the way back, he happened to come across a clue about the Heartless Sect. They were holding an initiation test at the time, so he wanted to join as a spy, like the two of us, and bring down the Heartless Sect."
"Worried about Grand Ancestor's safety, we took the test too. The test was to kill the person closest to you in an illusion. Old Meng and I both failed. Only Grand Ancestor succeeded."
A rare curiosity stirred in Yun Zhi. For the moment, she set aside the question of what had happened to Daoist Xiantian. "Then, Junior Brother, who did you see in the illusion?"
Meng Jingzhou was curious about that too. Lu Yang had been eliminated even earlier than he had, so what kind of enemy—or rather, what person closest to him—had he encountered?
"It was, it was that, uh..."
"Who?"
Lu Yang stammered, embarrassed to say it in front of the person in question.
"Who else could it be? Of course, it was this immortal!" The Undying Fairy popped out of Lu Yang's body, looking smug as she bragged to Yun Zhi.
"Our Undying lineage is united, with one heart from top to bottom!"
Yun Zhi didn't react, merely saying,