Deng Yici and her companion followed Immortal Lord Liujing into the Mysterious Court.
Half a day later.
As the sun gradually set, a golden streak of light quietly descended through the night, disturbing no one in the Mysterious Court as it landed precisely in the courtyard on Ten Thousand Bamboo Mountain.
No one was in the courtyard or the house. Cui Yuanxi, Xiao Shi, and Tong Ke were all away.
Zhang Yuan nodded slightly, then entered the bedroom, closed the door, and shrouded the room with [Severing Past and Present, Leaving or Staying].
Zhang Yuan took out the "Sea-Covering Heaven-Bearing Art" and casually tossed it onto the floor, his face expressionless.
Seeing what he did, Chi Guanguan asked curiously, "Zhang Yuan, is there something wrong with this method? This immortal doesn't see anything wrong with it."
"There is, but the problem isn't with the method itself. It's with where it came from," Zhang Yuan said with a slight nod.
"Where it came from? Didn't it fall out of that Middle Antiquity Heavenly Immortal's Dao Domain? Where else could it have come from?" Chi Guanguan was utterly baffled.
"I did obtain this method after killing Li Chuanqi, but whether this 'Sea-Covering Heaven-Bearing Art' actually dates back to Middle Antiquity is open to question."
Zhang Yuan shook his head.
While helping Xu Lingyin search for heavenly gang and earthly sha, he had happened to encounter the reincarnation of a Middle Antiquity Heavenly Immortal. He had then just happened to awaken that immortal's true numen with his attack. Afterward, he had killed Li Chuanqi, whose Dao Domain had just happened not to close completely-and two cultivation methods had just happened to fall out.
Taken individually, any one part of the incident might not have seemed particularly suspicious. Viewed as a whole, however, there