A Happy Ending for All

Celestial Pivot Hall was built entirely of obsidian. Its overall style was solemn and profound, even somewhat oppressive.

At this moment, Yue Wanfeng's gaze was deep and his expression placid as water—profound and stifling, exactly matching the hall's atmosphere.

Gao Xian silently regarded Yue Wanfeng, his own expression equally calm. Yet his eyes shone brilliantly like stars, gleaming in the dim hall.

He did not activate the Heavenly Dragon Dharma-Breaking True Eye. Using a secret art to pry into Yue Wanfeng face-to-face would have been too discourteous. Besides, there was no need.

All told, he had spent two hundred and fifty years at Wanfeng Sect, one hundred and eighty of them in the Longevity Sword Grotto. It was precisely that bitter cultivation in the Longevity Sword Grotto that had refined his Taiyuan Divine Image into a Sword Lord, honed his swordsmanship to utmost purity, and laid a deep foundation for his cultivation.

Guarding the Longevity Sword Grotto had been quite arduous—a form of punishment, one might say.

Yet Gao Xian bore Yue Wanfeng no grudge. Strictly speaking, Yue Wanfeng had actually treated him rather well. Especially after he had killed Hongyang in public, Yue Wanfeng had said nothing.

It was Yue Wanfeng's protective attitude that had silenced all the various voices within the sect. Whenever Yue Wanfeng had sent him to do work, he had paid him as well.

Overall, the two had gotten along fairly harmoniously, with perhaps three parts personal sentiment between them. Add in Yue Shenxiu's connection, and that was another three parts of sentiment.

So long as Yue Wanfeng did not turn hostile, Gao Xian would not make a move against him. Nor was he shameless enough to regard the Azure Splendor Wheel as his own property and condemn anyone who possessed it as unforgivably guilty.