Inside the courtyard.
Jiang Ning looked at the old woman named Hou Yingying before him, feeling somewhat surprised.
He could sense the fear she was revealing.
That fear stemmed from him.
Had she seen through something? The thought flashed through his mind.
"Elder Hou, Palace Master Xiao, please sit down and talk." Jiang Ning suppressed his doubts and invited the two of them to take their seats.
Nearby, Lü Yi also entered the room to make preparations.
A moment later.
The three of them took their seats in the pavilion.
Although the weather was hot that morning,
Dongling City lay on one side of the Dongling Mountain Range, backed by its endless mountain ridges.
Moreover, the rear courtyard was lush and green. The lake in the middle occupied seventy to eighty percent of the area, making the temperature far lower than in Guangning City.
Especially after the heavy rain two days earlier, the temperature had dropped considerably.
Now, as a cool breeze swept across the lake, evaporating the sweat, Jiang Ning immediately felt wave after wave of chill.
At the same time.
Xiao Emei's heart was thrown into turmoil when she heard the voice of Grand Elder Hou Yingying beside her.
She recalled the news she had heard earlier.
The Water-Moon Sword Palace's two secret, supreme cultivation techniques—
the Jade-Wave Sword Canon and the Desire-Cutting Heart Sutra—had appeared in Guangning City at the Summer Auction held by Myriad Splendor Tower.
That matter had not yet reached the ears of the Sword Palace's disciples, so it had not caused any major disturbance.
Once the news spread, however, it would inevitably unsettle the Water-Moon Sword Palace's disciples and make the situation even more dire.
Various thoughts flashed through her mind, and she suddenly felt that the possibility of her earlier conjecture had