Yu Ci heard that this was He Qing's voice, not knowing who she was speaking with. While he was wondering, He Qing had already revealed her figure, probably walking down. Yu Ci saw her, and naturally she discovered Yu Ci as well.
Both sides were slightly startled. In fact, Yu Ci's entry into the Star Picking Main Tower had been so smooth entirely thanks to the Guardian Law Saint protecting him from behind the scenes; otherwise, with all the seals and checkpoints layer upon layer, he would have been discovered by the people upstairs from over a hundred miles away. Now, however, they had caught each other completely off guard.
He Qing reacted, speaking from her vantage point above: "Are you here to use the Star Picking Main Tower?"
"Uh, no..." Yu Ci truly had not explicitly allocated his plan for those eighteen days, but coming up here this time, he had indeed thought of seeking guidance from He Qing.
He Qing's gaze was sharp, and she could guess seven or eight parts of his thoughts, but now was not the time for instruction. Thinking for a moment, she said:
"The Ancestor is here, come pay your respects."
"The Ancestor?"
At this moment in the Li Chen Sect, whenever the Ancestor was mentioned, in most contexts it referred to a single person: the sect's only Grand Calamity Stage cultivator, Ancestor Fang Hui.
Yu Ci knew there was someone else upstairs, but he hadn't expected it to be this person, and for a moment his scalp tightened. Regardless of what he was thinking, He Qing flashed aside to yield a path, and someone paced down. How many steps could a dozen or so stairs take? Before Yu Ci could come up with a proper plan, that person had already walked down