When Luo Yi opened his eyes again...
He was still sitting cross-legged in meditation, just as he had been at the start. But four wary figures now stood around him.
The four Endless Sea Nine Sons Dao Seeds who had come with him, along with Cao Yuxiu and Qi Zhentian, two high-ranking members of the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect, had evidently kept watch over him for days.
If he had not woken soon, Pan Linfeng might have finally used the Message Jade Slip at his waist to ask his own Sect Master for help. His hand had been resting on it all this time.
Seeing young friend Luo awake, Cao Yuxiu forced a smile uglier than a grimace.
But his gaze did not linger on Luo Yi. Instead, he glanced as if by chance toward Liu Yiyi.
Only when he saw her lower the arm she had kept poised over the Spiritglow Longsword at her waist did the weight on his heart lift.
He did not react this way because he feared that madwoman Liu Yiyi.
He simply did not want a minor misunderstanding to shatter the fairly harmonious relationship between the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect and the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea.
For one thing, the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect would likely need the Heavenly Pill Sect of the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea to fill many gaps in its supply of Cultivation Pills.
As for why he had not explained earlier and cleared up the misunderstanding,
before Luo Yi opened his eyes, even Cao Yuxiu, a Dao Seed of the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect, could not be certain whether the Sacred Mountain had undergone some unknown change in the past hundred thousand-odd years.
Otherwise, how could it have refused to release Luo Yi even when his Divine Soul was being