Chapter 58: Good things never come easily
Looking at Yan Changqing's bewildered, anguished remnant soul, Ding Songyan moved the Qingmengmeng "seed" to his throat.
He spoke in an eerie, icy voice:
"Yan Changqing, where is the missing Kunlun?"
Details such as the Hundun Remains had already convinced him that Yan Changqing had entered the Celestial Emperor's Palace, so he skipped asking whether he had been there.
Yan Changqing's wandering yin soul turned sideways and looked blankly at him, answering in a hollow voice:
"Kunlun has always been in its original location, between Redwater and Blackwater. It has merely been hidden."
Just then, Su Qingli exclaimed softly:
"I can hear him! I can hear him!"
Her excitement was written all over her face.
Tao Wenshu, holding her sword and its scabbard, nodded too.
You can hear him? Right, I haven't even moved the Qingmengmeng "seed" to my ears, and I can hear him too... That's good. It saves me the trouble of relaying everything. Otherwise, they might suspect the middleman of skimming off the top and withholding crucial information... Reassured, Ding Songyan gathered his words:
"Then how can we enter Kunlun?"
Yan Changqing's ghostly figure was translucent, tinged with spectral green:
"First, one must be able to sense heaven and respond to earth. Second, one must possess either an object that once came out of Kunlun or a relic of the Celestial Emperor. Third, one must use the Kunlun Secret Compendium to locate a particular place."
"The Kunlun Secret Compendium?" Tao Wenshu and Su Qingli asked in unison.
Ding Songyan knew what to ask without even thinking:
"What is the Kunlun Secret Compendium?"
The expression on Yan Changqing's ghostly face shifted slightly:
"Ever since Qi of Xia failed to succeed to the Celestial Emperor's throne, every generation has had seekers of