Mortal Realm, Capital City of the Pine Cloud Dynasty.
Still unwilling to give up, Chi Jiuyu spent some time looking into news about the new emperor—Cheng Yu.
But unfortunately, she still found nothing.
Perhaps when the old emperor had been killed that day, Xiao Fan's words had been spread by the survivors in the imperial garden.
The emperor had been killed for eating people...
Thus, when the court officials chose which prince to support for the throne afterward, they had taken that into consideration as well. After all, no one wanted another battle between cultivators to erupt in the Capital City.
With nothing to do in the Capital City, Chi Jiuyu's group simply toured its various famous landmarks.
Afterward, they arrived near the spatial passage revealed by the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect's trainees, preparing to head to Great Profound Heaven.
The passage was located in an inconspicuous Daoist temple, bearing three large characters—Purple Purity Temple.
Formations had been set up around the temple. They were not particularly effective against cultivators with cultivation, but blocking ordinary people was more than enough.
Besides, ordinary cultivators would not offend Purple Purity Temple for no reason.
And it was outside the temple that the girls encountered another group—
Xiao Fan, Lin Qiuxian, and Divine Mechanism Artifact Refining Pavilion's artifact refiner, Mo Cheng.
Indeed, the three of them were also preparing to head to Great Profound Heaven.
By the time Chi Jiuyu's group arrived, the three had already entered the temple. Noticing someone approaching, they turned around to look.
"Little Martial Uncle Ancestor?"
"Chi Jiuyu!"
Lin Qiuxian and Mo Cheng of the Divine Mechanism Artifact Refining Pavilion spoke almost at the same time.
One was puzzled, the other astonished.
Xiao Fan, meanwhile, paid more attention to Zhang Yunlu—his old classmate from Mystic Sword City, and also