"Fellow Daoist Ziji." The moment Ye Jingcheng stepped out of Soul-Repelling City's teleportation square, he discovered someone calling for him.
It gave Ye Jingcheng quite a fright. After all, if those Eight Stage Body Integration cultivators or Ninth Order Mahayana cultivators were looking for him, they would have drawn him away immediately.
But when he saw that it was Venerable Bai Chen calling his name, Ye Jingcheng smiled, and the tension in his heart eased.
"Fellow Daoist Bai Chen, did you just arrive as well?"
"There were some matters within the sect that needed handling, which delayed me until now." Venerable Bai Chen nodded in reply.
There was still a trace of grief on his face.
With Soul-Repelling City breached, many factions had their mountain gates destroyed. Of their treasures and spirit herbs, less than thirty or forty percent remained, while the losses among mortals and spirit mountains were even more immense.
Some Void Refinement factions might not recover the foundation of their losses even after several centuries.
Especially the factions on the outskirts of Astral Mystery Mountain and East Water Lake.
The former had been pursued by the Jade Soul Race, while the latter had been hunted by the Yaksha Race.
The mountain gates of Venerable Bai Chen's White Origin Sect and the Duan Family happened to be among them.
"Fellow Daoist Bai Chen, my condolences. If you need anything, come find me at any time," Ye Jingcheng consoled him.
Though he could not be considered particularly familiar with Venerable Bai Chen, the man had not made things difficult for him when they exchanged for the Earth Qilin Stone years ago. Coupled with the Duan Family connection, they could be regarded as half-friends.
Of course, at this moment, he did not know how to offer comfort either, so his