The Peak Master of Ancient Sacred Peak was personally searching for someone—wasn't that making a mountain out of a molehill?
Was someone who had struck twelve chimes really that important?
The next moment, Tie Binghun let out a long sigh. "Forget it, forget it. There's no need to keep searching. That black-clad young man doesn't want to provoke the great trouble of our Ancient Sacred Peak, so we shouldn't deliberately make things difficult for him either."
Those words left Sikong Jing stunned again. So it was Ancient Sacred Peak that was in great trouble?
And I don't want to provoke it?
As he thought, Sikong Jing immediately recalled that so-called guest of the Saintess. Could it be that they were looking for him not merely to recruit him, but because they needed his help with something?
Even now, Sikong Jing had no idea what background the Saintess's guest had.
He only knew that the latter was also challenging the three great trials and was currently inside the Army-Slaying Formation Guild, challenging the Nine-Star Battle Diagram.
"It seems that President Cang Lin had a purpose in asking me to alter the ninth Starry Diagram."
"This guest of the Saintess must be a huge problem. They definitely can't let him successfully solve the three great trials. So after Ancient Sacred Peak saw my performance on the Iron Cang Martial Resonance Stone, they wanted to find me and have me step forward to suppress that guest's arrogance."
"And this so-called guest must have quite an extraordinary background."
"They thought I didn't want to show myself because I didn't want to provoke this so-called guest."
As these thoughts ran through his mind, Sikong Jing came to understand Ancient Sacred Peak's current predicament somewhat.
Just then, an Ancient Sacred Peak expert who had arrived above