Seeing Gu Sheng, Tantai Mingjing gave a slight nod, then his gaze fell upon Yun Gucheng behind him, a trace of barely perceptible surprise flashing through his eyes. Tantai Bingyu also rose and offered Gu Sheng a gentle smile in greeting.
"Uncle Mingjing, Brother Bingyu."
Gu Sheng cupped his hands in salute, then got straight to the point and explained why he had brought Yun Gucheng here.
"This is Brother Yun Gucheng. I brought him here to ask Uncle Mingjing to use his supreme cultivation to temporarily stabilize the life force of his younger sister, Yun Meng, so that I may carefully investigate the root of her condition."
Tantai Mingjing swept his gaze over Yun Gucheng's face, filled with pleading and anxiety, then looked at Gu Sheng. Without asking for the reason, he agreed readily.
"Very well."
Seeing this unfathomably powerful Half-Saint agree so readily, Yun Gucheng was deeply grateful. He hurried forward and cautiously took the Formation Plate, now shrunk to the size of a palm, from his robes.
At Gu Sheng's prompting glance, he circulated his true qi and gently placed the Formation Plate on the open ground in the center of the study.
The moment the Formation Plate touched the ground, light flowed across it as it swiftly expanded to a radius of more than ten feet. Its formation patterns glowed brightly, radiating a soft, vibrant light. Yun Meng's pale, tranquil, breathtaking figure floated silently at the center of the formation, gently enveloped in transparent Spirit Light like a sleeping fairy.
Seeing Yun Meng's beauty, Tantai Bingyu could not help but show a flicker of amazement. Instinctively, he compared her to his two younger sisters and silently praised her appearance.
Yet what drew his attention even more was how weak her aura was. She was like a