"Wine-Brewing Peak isn't receiving visitors at the moment."
Half asleep, Old Drunkard muttered the words when he sensed an aura appear out of thin air before him.
But he quickly came to his senses. I'm inside Wine-Brewing Peak. Who could possibly break in?
Could a Nascent Soul ancestor have come?!
Before he even opened his eyes, he scrambled to his feet. When he saw who stood before him, he cried out in delight.
"Peak Master!"
"You've finally come out of seclusion!"
Seeing how much thinner Old Drunkard had grown, Ji Yuan instinctively felt that something was wrong.
Old Drunkard's aura was unstable, too.
Ji Yuan had spent twenty years in seclusion. With Old Drunkard's aptitude for reaching Golden Core Formation and his relatively young age, even if he had failed to break through to the Golden Core Middle Stage, he should at least have reached the minor milestone of the peak of the Golden Core Early Stage.
But now?
His cultivation had not improved. He was even injured inside.
A sweep of Ji Yuan's Divine Sense revealed that his vitality had declined.
That was why Old Drunkard had been so delighted to see Ji Yuan emerge.
"Has something happened in the sect while I was away?"
Ji Yuan went straight to the point.
At the mention of it, the delight on Old Drunkard's face gradually faded, replaced by distress.
"Something major did happen in the sect while you were in seclusion, Peak Master."
"Oh?"
Ji Yuan sat down nearby. "What happened? Tell me at once."
"Yes."
Old Drunkard answered, "For some reason, rumors have spread outside that our sect's supreme elder, Elder Xuanji, has passed away, and that Hundred Flowers Maiden is the only supreme elder the Cloud-Rain Sect has left."
"Is that so?"
After a moment's thought, Ji Yuan