"Hey, it's not exactly a secret. We only found out after boarding the island. We heard that Chi Jingbai, the direct grandson of Chi Xiao, the Ancestor of Chixiao from the Demonfall Valley, had his soul lamp extinguished. He died after leaving the Zitong Sect. Chi Jingbai was also the grandson of the Zitong Sect's Grand Elder, so the two great powers were naturally joined at the hip. The Nascent Soul grand cultivators were shaken. Not just Luोhe Island—even all the islands within several thousand miles, along with every passing cultivator, had to undergo strict searches. Anyone who tried to resist was only asking for humiliation. We don't know what faction killed Chi Jingbai, but we were the fish caught in the crossfire. We've really been cursed with rotten luck."
"What? Chi Jingbai, the genius Foundation Establishment cultivator of the entire Blue Demon Sea, known as the number-one person below the Golden Core, actually died? Could the culprit have been a Golden Core cultivator?" The cultivators from Qingdeng Temple and those who had boarded the island with them spoke with looks of shock.
"It should have been a Golden Core cultivator. Otherwise, who could have killed Chi Jingbai? Even dozens of ordinary Foundation Establishment experts would have been unable to do anything to him. Just his array of defensive artifacts made injuring him difficult, let alone beating him until both his body and spirit were destroyed." The middle-aged cultivator let out a sorrowful sigh. "A person's fate is truly impossible to predict. Chi Jingbai was only forty, yet he had already reached the pinnacle of Foundation Establishment, a height ordinary people could barely hope to glimpse. With his aptitude and family background, entering the Golden Core path within the next two years had been a certainty. Who would have thought