"You're the Golden Snake King, aren't you?" Song Yuanqiao explained. "Back then, Daoist Huangmu and the Golden Snake Lord were friends. Later, because of the Golden Snake Lord, he was captured by the Five Poisons Sect and imprisoned for more than a decade. He was only rescued by his disciples when Yuan Chengzhi stormed the Five Poisons Sect."
Only then did Song Qingshu vaguely remember. The Golden Dragon Gang that Jiao Wan'er had belonged to had been driven into a miserable state by Min Zihua and the others from the Xiandu Sect.
Thinking back on it, the martial arts of those Xiandu Sect members had not been particularly impressive. This Daoist Huangmu had been imprisoned by the mere Five Poisons Sect for decades, so his martial arts could not have been that formidable.
This brought Jiao Wan'er to mind instead. Recalling the tense thrill of nearly being discovered by Luo Liru in her room, Song Qingshu could not help sighing that he had truly been too reckless in those years.
With that distraction, he no longer found Daoist Huangmu particularly suspicious. After all, his martial arts were far inferior to those of Daoist Mu from Ghostly Villa.
"Are there any others?" Song Qingshu continued asking.
"There are a few other sects as well. Your Grand Tutor traveled the world in his youth and helped many people of the Daoist path. Quite a few received a few pointers from him, so Wudang has no small number of collateral branches..." Song Yuanqiao went through the sects that had come up the mountain this time one by one.
Song Qingshu listened carefully for a long while, yet he felt that this one was suspicious and that one was suspicious. In the end, no one seemed truly suspicious.
Song Yuanqiao personally led the way.