Clearly, Ning Shuang Zhenren's Registered Disciple had most likely stumbled upon the Long Family's secret by accident, which was why she had lost her life for nothing.
But the whole matter was certainly not that simple. A Long Family possessing only a single Heavenly Human Realm martial artist definitely could not have silenced Ning Shuang Zhenren's Registered Disciple.
There were most likely martial experts from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion secretly involved as well.
"I understand now!"
Xue Bingxuan was clever to begin with, and she immediately understood what Luo Yi meant.
The Absolute Cold Sword Array was a secret never passed on outside Ning Shuang Zhenren's lineage—or even the Dao Alliance's. Yet it had ended up lost in the outside world.
If she brought this cultivation technique back, she would count as having rendered the Dao Alliance a great service. She might even gain the attention of her future Master.
But all of that had one prerequisite: she had to explain the origin of these things clearly.
Otherwise, not only would she gain no benefits, she might instead turn a blessing into a curse, causing the Dao Alliance to grow suspicious of her. They might even use some unknown methods to force her to reveal their source.
After all, how could there be so many coincidences in the world? She had only just become Ning Shuang Zhenren's Registered Disciple, yet she had already found these things.
Besides that, these things had another special use: she could use them to threaten the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and thus rack her brains to extract as many benefits as possible.
But regardless of which of the two methods above she chose, the risks she would face were enormous.
Moreover, if she made even the slightest mistake along the way, whether it was the Daoist