That very day, the Immortal Sect convened an elders' meeting, and Mu Yunshui was summoned in as well. Her return had already caused an enormous stir. Everyone had thought she had perished in that great destruction, yet she had returned without a scratch.
Several elders had initially harbored doubts, but after ultimately confirming that she truly bore no injuries at all, they believed her account that she had left before the sect-protecting grand formation was activated.
The elders could not imagine any spiritual medicine in this realm capable of restoring injuries in an instant. Chen Fan's Pure Wood Essence had never been revealed before them, and this instead allowed Mu Yunshui to escape their various interrogations.
She also concisely explained to the elders that she had gone to the Ten Thousand Swords Sect only to keep Qin Xian'er from being harmed. Yet in the end, the Ten Thousand Swords Sect had imprisoned Qin Xian'er and refused to release her, claiming that Qin Xian'er would only be freed once Chen Fan arrived. That was why she had decided to descend the mountain to seek out Chen Fan's whereabouts. She had never expected that, upon her return, the Ten Thousand Swords Sect would be nothing but ruins.
"Then Xian'er has fallen as well?" The elder seated in the very center frowned. His hair was completely white and his face aged, yet he carried a trace of kindly benevolence. His cultivation was also the strongest among them, seemingly having just entered the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm.
"Grand Elder, that witch only brought this upon herself. Before the Sect Master entered seclusion, he told us to look after her, but she betrayed the sect of her own accord and even killed her fellow disciples. She had long since fallen onto the