Within Nether City, Gan Bai withdrew from the Heaven-Training Dao Canon. Lately, there seemed to be more and more mystic cultivators, and more people discussing the Dao as well. He had just instructed more than a dozen people in succession, and he felt utterly refreshed.
The only unpleasant thing was that the fellow called Ban Lan had not shown his face for some time. Rumor had it he was lecturing on the Dao in the Inner Layer, leaving Gan Bai with no chance to teach him a lesson.
Thinking of this, he could not help recalling what Yue Luo had said about Eastern Court. Anyone could see that the precise attack on the flying vessel at sea had involved an insider. Moreover, mystic venerables guarded the route from Jade Capital to Eastern Court. For someone to tamper with matters in between, it might even involve a certain mystic venerable.
This person...
But just as this thought arose, he suddenly realized something was wrong. He was a man of Nether City—why was he worrying about Celestial Xia's affairs? What did any insider have to do with him?
At that moment, he glanced aside and saw a disciple coming up from below the cliff. He asked, "What is it?" The disciple bowed, presenting a letter with both hands. "Mystic Venerable, a letter from Exalted One Xian Ding."
Gan Bai reached out and accepted it. For some reason, those annoying talking flying letters had vanished lately, and all correspondence had returned to ordinary letters, though delivery was somewhat slower. He opened it and found the same old rhetoric. He had received three or four such letters recently.
This Exalted One Xian Ding seemed to intend to support him, while vaguely hinting that he could replace Jin Zhixing.
He curled his lip. Did they