"What?"
Hearing Xue Kui's abrupt remark, Qing Yuan couldn't help but freeze, almost thinking she was so exhausted that she'd misheard.
"I said, Qing Yuan! I found my master!"
Xue Kui's voice brimmed with uncontrollable excitement. Though she had lived for more than three thousand years, at that moment she was as delighted as an eight- or nine-year-old girl.
"Look, look at this!"
As she spoke, she hurriedly spread the thick Hundred Affairs Scroll across the table, then took a clean sheet of rice paper and carefully set it beside the scroll.
She meticulously marked on the rice paper the locations and directions she had selected from the Hundred Affairs Scroll.
Qing Yuan stood to one side, utterly confused. She had no idea what Xue Kui was doing.
"Do you remember the deduction I made before?"
Xue Kui raised her head and looked at Qing Yuan with burning eyes as she asked.
"Back then, those Ascension Realm sect masters who came out of the White Bone Forbidden Land all kept their mouths shut. As soon as they returned, they announced they were entering closed-door cultivation. There were even signs that their Dao Hearts had wavered.
At the time, I suspected they must have encountered something beyond reason, something they couldn't understand, inside the forbidden land.
They might even have been secretly plotting something."
"Now, take another look at these places."
As she spoke, Xue Kui pointed to several locations she had just marked on the rice paper and explained, "According to the records in the Hundred Affairs Scroll from the past two years, large-scale vicious-beast rampages broke out in all these places. They happened to be the sects those sect masters belonged to."
"And here. Take another look at these."
Finally, when Xue Kui connected the scattered marks one by