Creak!
With a soft sound, the runes on the stone door shimmered, and the heavy door slowly opened a crack.
Yun Yun took a deep breath, circulated her dou qi, gathered her exceptional soul power, and slipped inside.
The stone chamber was far larger inside than it appeared from outside. A single moonlight stone was embedded in the ceiling, and a meditation cushion sat in the center, with an old man in a plain gray robe seated cross-legged upon it.
The old man's hair and beard were white, his face lean and refined. He looked like an otherworldly sage, an exalted master removed from worldly affairs. Yet a faint black marking flickered between his brows, impossible to suppress, spoiling that impression and adding an eerie air.
This was none other than Yun Shan, the former sect master of the Misty Cloud Sect!
"Master!"
Seeing the marking between Yun Shan's brows, and keenly sensing the changes within him through her soul power, Yun Yun lost the last shred of hope she had clung to. Her eyes instantly reddened.
In the past, she would never have scrutinized her master. Even if she had noticed anything unusual about Yun Shan, she would not have thought much of it.
Every word Chu Zhou had said was true.
"Yun'er, what happened? Why is your aura so unsettled?" Yun Shan frowned, concern in his voice.
"Master!" Yun Yun's voice choked with tears as she said urgently, "I just returned from the Tagor Desert. I saw Protector Wu and Protector Tie of the Hall of Souls slain with my own eyes. He..."
"What?!" Before Yun Yun could finish, Yun Shan jolted. The clarity in his eyes instantly gave way to shock and a trace of panic. "Protector Wu was killed? Who did it?"
"Did Queen Medusa break