"I heard that the third volume of Records of Strange Ambitions recorded the secret of becoming an immortal?"
Zhang Xiaofan's words left Song Daren and the other senior brothers staring in shock. They all turned to look at Zhou Yixian.
"The opportunity I mentioned was only about those children. We traveled together once, and their parents gave Xiaohuan and me some food, so I cast a divination for them. The reading showed that those children were connected to Two Mountains, which was why I asked you to save them. It had nothing to do with this!" Zhou Yixian said, pointing with an inscrutable expression at the scroll on the table as he looked at Zhang Xiaofan and the others.
"Please, Master, tell us! Are these two lines of verse connected to becoming an immortal?" Zhang Xiaofan asked Zhou Yixian, his face full of curiosity.
The three senior brothers, Song Daren among them, were all on edge now. Their stares nearly bored holes through Zhou Yixian.
Zhou Yixian nodded, then shook his head. "You're thinking too simply. The third volume of Records of Strange Ambitions says that the secret of becoming an immortal lies within the Five Seas. What's written on this paper is related to the Five Seas, but it has absolutely nothing to do with becoming an immortal."
"How so?"
"If becoming an immortal were really that simple, the word 'mysterious' wouldn't have been placed before 'Five Seas.'" Zhou Yixian looked at the Azure Cloud Sect disciples gathered around him, a strange light in his eyes.
"Isn't the Five Seas just..." He Dazhi began, but Zhou Yixian cut him off.
"The Five Seas you know of aren't the real Five Seas!" Zhou Yixian declared, not even letting He Dazhi finish.
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