At that moment, the young man within the ice crystal shifted his gaze toward Qing'er.
His lips did not move, yet his voice clearly rang beside Qing'er's ear.
"This servant came with an important matter to report, which is why I disturbed Young Master's cultivation! Young Master's strength has advanced further—truly cause for congratulations!"
Qing'er lowered her head in a bow. Watching the ice crystal grow increasingly transparent, her face was filled with excitement.
"Mm... Although I possess the Qian and Kun divisions' immortal-devil-grade cultivation methods passed down from the Martial God, and the Thousand Bath Sect has recently submitted, granting me the Gen division's cultivation method, I still cannot cultivate them smoothly with my current abilities. I can only rely on the aura of this icy mountain to fuse this origin energy with my previous cultivation..."
The young man sighed. "Even after the origin energy has fully fused, I still cannot leave this place. I can only entrust this matter to you!"
"This servant deserves death!"
Qing'er's expression immediately turned anxious and uneasy. "The hidden operatives in Wuling Commandery... no longer exist! Cheng Tianwu is dead, and the previous forces have scattered and fallen apart. Quite a few have even defected to the enemy, making them unusable to us..."
"Wuling Commandery itself is not a major issue. But no matter how lacking Cheng Tianwu may have been, he was still ranked among the Earth Origin experts. Who could have killed him?"
"Daoist Yu, ranked third on the Earth Origin Experts List!"
Qing'er slowly said, "This man is a rising talent who appeared from nowhere recently. He defeated Ding Peng of the Blazing Sun Sect... and later, in Wuling Commandery, he broke through all eighteen Black Ghost Passes of the Black Tiger Sect. He even easily repelled the combined attack