Yin Qingxue's gaze remained calm and unruffled, as though he had long expected Su Shi'er to ask this.
"Fellow Daoist Su's guess is not without reason. But... that senior had been one of the foremost figures of the Out of Body stage in his day, and he had the protection of Buddhist Sect secret arts. Even if he were discovered, how could he have been slain so easily?"
Su Shi'er nodded slightly, neither agreeing nor disagreeing with Yin Qingxue's explanation.
After pondering for a moment, he continued, "But without knowing where he is, finding him would hardly be an easy matter."
Yin Qingxue promptly said, "Fellow Daoist Su need not worry. Having spent so many years in the Sacred Spirit Cult, how could I have done nothing at all? There are only a few places within the Sacred Spirit Cult where secrets can be hidden. Combined with the circumstances at Golden Cicada Temple back then, it will not be difficult to determine where that Buddhist Sect senior might be."
"You mean underground? Beneath the Sacred Spirit Cult's mountain?" Su Shi'er's pupils contracted as he lowered his head to look at the earth beneath his feet.
More than five years ago, after the Sacred Spirit Cult Saintess publicly destroyed Golden Cicada Temple's former sect gate, she had used a secret art to raise the ground itself, creating the present towering mountain that soared ten thousand zhang into the sky and fully displayed the Sacred Spirit Cult's capabilities and methods.
Strictly speaking, however, the earth beneath the ground had never changed.
Moreover, Yin Qingxue had revealed that the key to the secret art used by that Buddhist Sect expert lay in absorbing Earth Qi.
Reaching such a conclusion was only natural, like water flowing into its channel.
Beneath his mask, Yin Qingxue