"But when will Zhu Jiuyin return to the Wu Clan? Where is he hiding in the Heavenly Dipper Layers, and how much longer will he stay there? What's going on with the Taiyi Avatar accompanying him? Could Kong Xuan find him first? That's why I hope one of you will make a trip to the Heavenly Dipper Layers and see if you can find Zhu Jiuyin. If you do, judge the situation and ask what he needs to return to the Wu Clan as soon as possible. If you can't, protect him from Kong Xuan and keep his cultivation from being disturbed!"
Ren had never paid much attention to Zhu Jiuyin's affairs. But during the last battle, Duan De had used his Death Dao to obtain information about Zhu Jiuyin from Taiyi. Ren had learned that Zhu Jiuyin was alive and would soon return.
Ren understood how important another Ancestral Shaman would be to the Wu Clan. In the past, he might have worried that Zhu Jiuyin's return would affect his cooperation with the clan or his standing within it.
Now he had no such worries. The Wu Clan had already accepted him and granted him control over its Destiny. Hundreds of years ago, he had refined the last drop of Dijiang Blood Essence. It had strengthened him and given him Dijiang's Space Talent.
Between that talent and the blood essence he had refined, many in the Wu Clan regarded Ren as the successor to the Emperor Scripture, or even as the clan's leader.
Ren's ties to the Wu Clan had long since become impossible to sever. His increasingly open relationship with Xuanming reassured him further, leaving him eager for Zhu Jiuyin's return.
Under these circumstances, Zhu Jiuyin's return would only strengthen the Wu Clan and Ren's own forces.
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