"I am Blood Skeleton Lord of the Divine Blood Sect. Greetings, fellow Daoists."
"I sensed an unusual fluctuation in the Origin Qi here and came to investigate. I did not expect to find you two here. Please forgive my intrusion."
"May I ask your esteemed names?"
Blood Skeleton Lord spoke with exceptional courtesy, even raising his hands in a formal salute to Song Wen and Ying Wu.
"So you're from the Divine Blood Sect," Ying Wu said in a knowing tone.
He seemed unsurprised to find someone from the Divine Blood Sect here.
A flicker of suspicion and surprise, however, crossed Song Wen's eyes.
Blood Skeleton Lord had most likely come to the Source-Qi Death Domain in Southern Nether Province to replace Xuan Gu and take charge of the Six Baleful Hall.
Yet fewer than forty years had passed since Xuan Gu's death, and Xuan Li had only left three years ago.
Even if Xuan Li had taken the Teleportation Array from Scarlet Firmament Province to Yujiang Province, traveling from Southern Nether Province to Scarlet Firmament Province, and then from Yujiang Province to Cangwu Province, where the Divine Blood Sect was located, would still have taken considerable time.
By rights, it could not have been long since Xuan Li brought news of the cause of Xuan Gu's death back to the Divine Blood Sect.
Had the Divine Blood Sect already sent someone to take over the Six Baleful Hall?
Or had the Divine Blood Sect assigned Blood Skeleton Lord immediately after Xuan Gu's death?
Or did the Divine Blood Sect have a more convenient way to travel between Southern Nether Province and Cangwu Province?
Song Wen remembered Gu Que once saying that, tens of thousands of years ago, the Divine Blood Sect had possessed a Teleportation Array leading directly to