Wei Beichen and Xiao Jinghong exchanged a glance. Each saw shock and unease in the other's eyes.
In the end, Wei Beichen looked at his junior brother beside him, who had witnessed Senior Sister's death with his own eyes and was clearly scared out of his wits.
As the senior brother, Wei Beichen stepped forward to explain.
"Senior Luo Yi, we've heard that rumor more than once before, but it isn't true."
"Otherwise, with Senior Sister's insight and talent, if she'd used that legendary Talisman Token as her Dao Palace Stabilizer, she would have had little trouble advancing further in the Combining Dao Realm."
Luo Yi nodded at his explanation. Then, as if something had occurred to him, he asked, "If the Talisman Token isn't with your Dao Alliance, there must be some other treasure there that can serve as a Dao Palace Stabilizer."
"Otherwise, apart from your Master, I doubt anyone else in the Dao Alliance could have reached Dao Integration."
Wei Beichen did not answer at once. After a long silence, he finally spoke.
"Senior Sister and the other senior brothers and sisters who reached the Combining Dao Realm at the Dao Alliance Mountain Gate all used badly damaged Dao Palace Stabilizers."
"Even those damaged Dao Palace Stabilizers, Master said she had to fight with everything she had to seize from that bastard in the Ten Thousand Demon Lair."
Wei Beichen broke off. When he looked at Luo Yi again, the resentment in his eyes had turned grim.
"But I've always felt those damaged Dao Palace Stabilizers didn't look like something Master seized from that person in the Ten Thousand Demon Lair. They looked more like something she picked up. Or perhaps she seized intact Dao Palace Stabilizers and deliberately damaged them..."
"How could there be such a