Within the Sacred Heaven Sect.
The most unsettled, naturally, was Zuo Qiu.
When he saw Gu Yuanqing and the others, he felt deeply uneasy, yet unwillingness also stirred within him. Why had these natives, once beneath him, surpassed him so utterly in merely three hundred years that he could no longer even glimpse their backs?
What happened back then had already been a disastrous setback. And today, they had come knocking at his door.
Fortunately, he was within the sect, so his life was not in danger for now. As for what might happen later, that could wait until later.
He had just answered the elder when the senior brother guarding this formation node with him continued, "Heh, Junior Brother Zuo, you really are lucky. You went on the Trial Path once and somehow forged such a grudge. That's no different from stumbling into a windfall. A Yin-Yang Realm Great Cultivator, too."
Zuo Qiu stared ahead and snorted coldly. "So what if he's a Yin-Yang Great Cultivator? I refuse to believe he would dare charge in."
"Even if he doesn't dare force his way in, you'll have to be careful whenever you leave in the future. At the Yin-Yang Realm, perhaps the one who came today is only a clone. Who knows where his main body is?"
Zuo Qiu's expression turned somewhat ugly. It was more than just needing to be careful when he went out in the future.
As one of those directly involved, he knew many things ordinary people did not.
Two hundred years ago, Li Miaoxuan had appeared and attacked Sect Master Shi Jin.
Afterward, people controlled by Soul Seals had appeared within the sect, and Shi Jin had once again been injured from afar by a Secret Art.
Later still, the names Li Shi'an and Ji