Jiang Wang moved quickly. One moment he had just sat down at Three-Part Fragrance Pavilion, ready to feast and drink; the next, he was already outside Linzi.
He set all the boundless winds and moonlight aside for now.
Yet, contrary to Jiang Wuyou's expectation, he did not immediately sail out to sea. Instead, he sent word for Bai Yuxia to take the others to Jueming Island first, while he himself cut south through the sky, flying over Chang Kingdom and Yi State straight for Heavenly Punishment Cliff.
He had come for two matters.
First, to visit Yu Beidou, who was a guest at Three Punishments Palace, and thank him for the Qi Knife Coin that had shielded him from disaster in the Demon Realm.
Second, Master Wu, who presided over Measure Earth Palace, had, at Chongxuan Chuliang's request, taken some evidence gathered by Chongxuan Sheng and personally gone to Xin'an City to question them, only to return empty-handed.
The Chongxuan Family had already paid the appropriate price for this matter.
But as the cause of the incident, he still wished to shoulder his responsibility.
"True Lord Yu is no longer at Three Punishments Palace? When did that happen?"
Through Zhuo Qingru of Measure Earth Palace, Jiang Wang had found True Lord Ju Kui of Rule Heaven Palace. Only now did he learn that, during these past years, Yu Beidou—the man hailed as the Divination of Half a Life—had actually been imprisoned in Three Punishments Palace.
Only then did he understand what price Yu Beidou had paid to subdue that so-called "moss-and-lichen ailment," that "mere little demon."
It was not only that precious left eye.
There were also the scattered years a free and unfettered Current Era True Lord had spent trapped within the Iron Law Cage.
And it was perhaps