He recalled a piece of news he had heard before, born from the puzzlement in the words of a fellow Daoist from the Azure Emperor Palace.
Primordial Era cultivators mostly entered seclusion to break through their cultivation realms.
Beyond that, traveling through the Mortal World was also one of the cultivation methods most commonly chosen by cultivators to enter the world.
In their spare time, fellow Daoists of the same generation would generally exchange insights and discuss the Dao.
During one such ordinary exchange, that fellow Daoist had accidentally revealed a few details in conversation: for a period before then, the Azure Emperor Palace had been rather solemn.
It was said that after the Azure Emperor went out and returned once more, he seemed to have been injured.
Such information naturally could not be stated outright during casual exchanges. The strong had their own unspoken understanding.
Yet after turning it over in his mind, Sect Master Changqing immediately reacted.
Normally, news that ought to have been buried beyond all reach should never have spread.
After all, a top expert of a Daoist lineage had been injured.
The implications behind it truly made one afraid to dwell on them.
Sect Master Changqing could not help wondering whether, at that time, some change unknown to outsiders had occurred in the circulation of the Azure Emperor Palace's Providence.
But even veteran cultivators who had lived within that Daoist lineage for ages would likely never have suspected the Azure Emperor, that supreme expert of the Azure Emperor Palace.
And that was only natural. Who could have imagined that the Heavenly Secrets least likely to occur would happen right before their eyes?
Not only would others find it unbelievable; even those experts seated high above the clouds would likely find it equally hard to accept.