Fei Jingxin's words made Bai Yu pause before he asked curiously.
"You know of the Kingdom of Return?"
He had never expected Fei Jingxin to know about something he had failed to learn of in the Cold Palace Tomb.
At that, Fei Jingxin nodded.
"Do you still remember Yellow Springs Mountain? It is part of the shattered Return. As for the Kingdom of Return, the records of one of Cihang Nunnery's ancestors called it the City of Wrongful Death—a kingdom existing only within the void, and also the domain where the Fengdu Sacred Emperor once held sway."
"Because of my master's injuries, aside from coming here to procure medicinal ingredients to stabilize her condition, I also need to travel to the Kingdom of Return and seek the Fengdu Sacred Emperor's inheritance."
Fei Jingxin sighed. Her master's injuries were exceedingly strange. Even high-grade pills had no effect whatsoever. That mysterious power was bone-chillingly cold; if her judgment was correct, her master had likely been ambushed by the Evil Emperor.
But how could an Evil Emperor have appeared in the Sword Burial Sect?
Before being hunted down, she had not believed her own conjecture.
The Fengdu Sacred Emperor was a renowned ghost cultivator of the Eternal Continent, an existence spoken of in the same breath as the Demon Venerable.
Because her master's injuries were too severe, Fei Jingxin had consulted a vast amount of information. Perhaps only by having her master convert to ghost cultivation through a powerful inheritance would there be any chance of a complete recovery.
"I don't know the exact location, but one thing is certain: the City of Wrongful Death should be near the Droughtfiend Soul Tribe at the heart of the Northern Frontier."
"That place is a paradise for ghost cultivators, as well as the largest slave