Everyone Had Their Own Aims

"We won't impose on you any longer, then. Please make yourself at home, Granny."

The sect master of the Five Immortals Sect, the old woman in the Purple Cloud-Sea Robe, showed no displeasure whatsoever. She simply turned and left.

Elder Fan Qingqing's expression remained natural as well. She said respectfully, "Granny has given her orders. We will naturally obey."

As she spoke, she glanced at Jiang Wang, seemingly without meaning to. "Please take your time chatting, honored guests."

The Five Immortals Sect's senior leaders withdrew in the blink of an eye. The imposing Zhengsheng Hall was immediately left with only Jiang Wang and Granny Bizhu.

Jiang Wang had expected to meet Granny Bizhu when he came to the Near-Sea Archipelago. After all, there was no way to rescue Zhu Biqiong without dealing with her master.

Even his visit to the Five Immortals Sect had been motivated in large part by what he'd heard: that Granny Bizhu stood behind the sect.

But he certainly hadn't expected to meet her so soon.

What sort of person was Granny Bizhu?

From Zhu Biqiong's occasional stories, the old woman seemed rather domineering, someone Zhu Biqiong feared a little, but who treated her disciples well. And as an elder with real power, her standing in the Sea Fishing Tower went without saying.

After Zhu Suyao had been all but crippled, Granny Bizhu had still managed to secure her a chance to enter the Heavenly Mansion Secret Realm. That was proof enough that she truly treated her disciples well.

And after Zhu Biqiong returned to the island and reported how Zhu Suyao had been set up, Hu Shaomeng, though already dead, was quickly struck from the sect's rolls.

That, too, showed how Granny Bizhu protected her disciples.

And judging from Jiang Wang's first encounter with her...