On the ninety-first floor of the Guardian Tower, two hazy figures stood by the window.
"Brother Xu, aren't you going to help this disciple?"
"It's been over thirty years, and he still hasn't seen the truth. How am I supposed to help him...?"
"Mm, another hopeless romantic..."
"By the way, what about that youngster you mentioned last time?"
"Two forces within the imperial family are making moves behind the scenes. We shouldn't act too hastily. The people from the four great powers have already arrived. Let them stir things up for a while first."
"Aren't you afraid Heaven One will snatch the boy away?"
"They won't..."
"The Sky Patrol Palace has a dedicated research team. Their analysis says the boy has a bit of a one-track mind..."
"A one-track mind!"
"Hahaha..."
The next day.
The Hundred Flowers Pavilion's disciple recruitment party arrived as well.
Leading them was a female martial warrior in the fourth-rank baleful convergence realm, whose powerful aura was unfathomably deep. Among the party were two familiar faces from last year: "Iceberg" Zhan Yun and "Bunhead" Gong Yueni.
After settling into their lodgings, Gong Yueni dragged her senior sister back to the Gong Family to visit her grandfather.
There, they learned that the Heavenly One Sword Sect had arrived before them, that Xia Xiaoqi was staying here, and that her cultivation had reached the sixth-rank true force realm.
Three ranks in a single year-what kind of cultivation talent was that?
Zhan Yun could no longer sit still. She quickly pulled her junior sister along and hurried over to knock on a room on the tower's eighth floor.
The moment they met, she discovered that it was indeed true.
It wasn't just her martial cultivation. Even more startling was the strength of her mental will, which already rivaled