Zhang Qingyuan left. Having settled these loose ends, there was nothing left in Cloud Water Sect worth his attachment.
All told, he had spent less than ten years in Cloud Water Sect.
Nor had he formed many bonds of worldly fate there.
Apart from the few friends such as Zhao Yuanyang and the other, along with Headmaster Liu, who had been his benefactor in those early years, those three were the people Zhang Qingyuan cared about most in Cloud Water Sect.
Beyond them, there were scarcely even a few people in Cloud Water Sect whom Zhang Qingyuan remembered.
The Jade Slips he had given Zhao Yuanyang and the others contained some of the essence of his self-cultivation. Even if they could not comprehend it all, the harvest within would be enough to raise their strength by a great margin.
That was already enough.
Too many other things would instead easily bring danger.
After bidding Zhao Yuanyang farewell, Zhang Qingyuan did not immediately leave the sect.
Instead, his expression turned grave,
and he walked toward the Main Peak.
As early as when he entered the Inner Sect, he had sensed several gazes in the void, like Heavenly Emperors casting their eyes down from the lofty sky vault, sweeping over him from head to toe.
At that moment,
Zhang Qingyuan had felt as though every secret all over his body had been seen through.
Within the sect,
there was a Great Terror!
Zhang Qingyuan was not surprised by this.
Though he did not know how powerful the sect's top-tier higher-ups truly were, merely the important figure, an ancient existence he had seen within the Tianmu Peak Secret Realm that day, told him Cloud Water Sect was absolutely not so simple.
In truth, the sect had the ability to protect him completely.
But