A Game Set in Motion Long Ago, Guangchengzi's Understanding? Sending You to the Interception Sect to Investigate Qingyuan

"I..."

Shen Gongbao reached out toward his friends.

He wanted to stop them.

But in the end, he lowered his hand with a sigh and stood there in a daze for a long time, grief-stricken.

Watching his friends all move away from him.

Perhaps he had begun to form some guesses of his own.

That was...

He had no friends left in the Chan Sect.

Pain and confusion surfaced on his face. He seemed unable to understand why even those who had usually helped one another, even friends bound by life and death, had suddenly abandoned him??

He did not seem to have directly offended anyone, did he?

"Alas..."

Shen Gongbao let out a soft sigh.

He left the Jade Void Palace and headed back to his own cave abode.

Yet everyone he encountered along the way either avoided him or looked on coldly, completely ignoring his attempts at goodwill.

Even the friends who had once spoken up for him now treated him like a stranger.

They simply ignored him!!

This made Shen Gongbao feel exceptionally miserable. He grew increasingly silent, returned directly to his cave abode, took out the Golden Core bestowed by the Saint, and entered secluded cultivation.

He turned his pain into motivation!!!

What Shen Gongbao did not know was that.

Within Qilin Cliff, a pair of eyes had been watching him all along.

"Hehe..."

"Interesting, truly interesting. Someone actually managed to tamper with a chess piece I favor without my knowledge. I am becoming more and more interested in you."

"You bestowed the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique upon an insignificant chess piece, and that was one thing. But you even gave him a strand of Hunyuan Undying True Intent to nourish his foundation and Primordial Spirit. Do you think this little beast can truly reach a