When Azure Dragon Holy Son returned to the Clear Mist Sect, it was already deep into the night.
He did not return to his own quarters, but headed straight for Jade Sky True Person's cave abode.
The cave abode was brightly lit. Jade Sky True Person sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion, holding a yellowed ancient scroll in his hands as though studying something.
Hearing the footsteps, he raised his head. At the sight of Azure Dragon Holy Son's livid face, his brows drew together slightly.
"What? Did you find something?"
Azure Dragon Holy Son took a deep breath, trying hard to calm himself, but his voice still carried an irrepressible fury. "Master, Junior Sister Qingyi really does have a problem..."
He recounted everything he had seen and done along the way, sparing not a single detail—
From Saintess Qingyi slaying the red-scaled lizard in Blood Dragon Mountain and risking her life to seize the two-thousand-year Mystic Dragon Blood Ginseng, to her flying over the Clear Mist Sect without entering and continuing southeast, and finally to her meeting a gray-robed man outside a cave abode and handing the Mystic Dragon Blood Ginseng over to him.
Not a single detail was omitted.
"That gray-robed man was at the tenth level of Spirit Transformation. He had an ordinary face and an average build, utterly unremarkable in appearance."
A cold gleam flickered in Azure Dragon Holy Son's eyes as he gritted his teeth. "But this disciple can almost certainly say that he was Chen Shan! He changed his appearance, concealed his cultivation, and hid in a temporarily excavated cave abode within that mountain ravine."
Jade Sky True Person set down the ancient scroll in his hand. After a moment of silence, he slowly asked, "Are you certain?"
"This disciple does not dare claim