When the Stone Man answered, Luo Yi asked the question he considered most important.
"Closer than brothers, bound together in life and death," Qin Yezhou answered without hesitation.
The answer sounded far too confident. Luo Yi fell silent for a moment, then voiced his doubts without indicating whether he believed him.
"If the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea were that close, why hadn't they paid any attention to what was happening inside Tianyan Sect all these years?"
"Couldn't they break through Tianyan Sect's Sect-Guarding Formation, or was there another reason?"
"If a Sect Master or Inner Sect Elder from another sect had intervened, breaking through Tianyan Sect's Outer Sealing Formation wouldn't have been too difficult."
"But doing so would not only alert the things that destroyed Tianyan Sect back then. It would also destroy this place completely."
Qin Yezhou looked at the curiosity written across the young man's face. From the blood that had yet to dry on him and everything he had transformed into earlier, it was easy to tell that the young man was in charge of this group.
After a long silence, Qin Yezhou continued explaining.
"Because the most precious thing in Tianyan Sect—or on the entire Tiannan Continent—is the land itself."
"What do you mean?"
Luo Yi did not understand.
From what Luo Yi had seen, Tiannan Continent did not even have enough to support a martial artist's breakthrough to the Great Vehicle Realm. What could make those powerful outsiders covet it?
Qin Yezhou slowly closed his eyes, as if recalling something. Or perhaps...
A long while later, he opened them and looked at the young man, his expression dark.
"To break through from Void Refinement to Dao Integration, you must take a Dao Palace Stabilizer into your body. To break through from Great Vehicle