Just days before Jiang Shu went to see Shi Feiyang, Zhu Mei suddenly returned to Golden Whip Cliff on Mount Qingcheng, sought Jiang Shu out, and had a conversation with him.
The deaths of Zen Master Yuanjue and Master Stubborn Stone on the banks of the Yuan River shocked the entire Emei Sect!
When Zhuge Jingwo's Dao foundation had been destroyed, they could still say that he had failed himself. His resolve and magical power had not been firm enough to withstand the demon fox's temptation and the Demon Dragon's methods.
Later, Ruan Zheng had died at Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain after answering a plea for help from Qian Kang, the lord of Evernight City. He had tried to avenge Zhuge Jingwo before the time was ripe, only to perish at the hands of Old Man Withered Bamboo, who had succumbed to demonic corruption.
Those two, after all, were merely juniors. Zen Master Yuanjue and Master Stubborn Stone were elders who had followed Elder Longbrow in cultivation since before the Eastern Jin and had already passed through several reincarnations.
Barring any mishaps, both could have attained heavenly immortality in this very lifetime, realized the Dao, and achieved Ascension!
Ruan Zheng was Qi Shouming's disciple, while Zhuge Jingwo had spent years attending him at Turtle-Fishing Rock in the Eastern Sea. Though formally apprenticed to Xuanzhenzi, Zhuge Jingwo had learned more from Qi Shouming in his daily studies and was as good as his own direct disciple. Qi Shouming could take full charge of matters concerning their past and future lives, but not those of Zen Master Yuanjue and Master Stubborn Stone.
Qi Shouming had been refining the Golden Light Blazing Fire Sword, but now he stopped. He ordered his disciples Zhuge Jingwo and Huang Xuanji to guard the sword furnace, hurried