When Chen Lin reached the Crystal Clan's headquarters, neither the Great Elder nor Yuguang Yan had returned. He found somewhere to sit and rest, turning over the matter of Gu Shengjin in his mind.
He had all but forgotten the man. Had he not seen him today, he would never have remembered him.
Gu Shengjin belonged to the Gu Family, an overseas bloodline clan on the Starry Continent. His family had a blood feud with Jin Xingyun, and he had some grievances with Chen Lin as well.
Back when Chen Lin had left Silver Immortal City alone for the Southern Immortal Cultivation World, Gu Shengjin had trapped him inside a single-use Yellow Springs Scroll. He had nearly died there, and had also rescued Yun Xiumian.
At this thought, Yun Xiumian's figure involuntarily surfaced in his mind.
He then took a wooden hairpin from his bundle.
A faint trace of nightmare qi lingered on the wooden hairpin. It was the one Yun Xiumian's projection had given him in the Blood Handkerchief Scenario. He had kept it all this time, hoping that she had been the real Yun Xiumian, and had only refused to acknowledge it because of some unspoken difficulty. Perhaps, someday, she would establish a connection with this hairpin.
But after so many years, the hairpin had shown no change, and that hope had gradually died.
With an inward sigh, he put the wooden hairpin away and continued thinking about Gu Shengjin.
If Gu Shengjin could appear here, then other cultivators from the Lower Realm might also be in this region. After all, there were only so many passages from the Lower Realm to the Upper Realm. Once one was discovered, it was unlikely that only one person would use it.
He remembered that when Gu Shengjin had participated in