Mid-stage Golden Core (Please keep following)

Several days later, a streak of spiritual light flew into Cold Ice Cave.

It was a Messaging Talisman.

Shen Xuan swept it with his Spiritual Sense, and True Person Mingshen's voice came from within.

He brought Qin Yuehan and Yang Huofeng and personally went to the harbor to welcome them.

A medium-sized Spirit Boat was moored by the shore. True Person Mingshen stood at the bow, with only a dozen or so disciples behind him. They all looked dejected.

The imposing old man of years past wore an unmistakable look of shame.

This time, only a dozen or so disciples had followed him away from Flame Island in Yue Kingdom.

Apart from Zeng Yuanyuan, there were only two Foundation Establishment cultivators.

The rest were all at the Qi Refining stage.

Fortunately, Yang Yunfan was among them.

"Father!"

After greeting True Person Mingshen, Yang Huofeng happily rushed over to him.

Her recent gloom vanished in an instant.

Shen Xuan welcomed everyone back to Cold Ice Cave.

Shangguan Yan'er had already prepared a banquet to welcome them.

The mood at the banquet was subdued.

After the meal, Shen Xuan and True Person Mingshen went into a secret chamber to talk.

"Daoist Xuanbing, it's a long story..."

"The human heart is hard to fathom. Someone impersonated Shen Haoming within Yueyun Sect's territory and committed a massacre. True Person Huangshi, an elder of Yueyun Sect's Law Enforcement Hall, pressed me relentlessly and came to Flame Island in person to arrest people..."

True Person Mingshen recounted what had happened on Flame Island afterward.

In truth, he understood it well enough.

It was clearly a frame-up.

Once he entered Yueyun Sect's Law Enforcement Hall, wouldn't they have him at their mercy?

What True Person Mingshen couldn't understand was why Yueyun Sect had done this.

Was it