On March 10, at Central Preservation Palace in the Heavencrystal Snowfield.
Following an announcement from one of the palace guards, Yao Zhengxia, the Bureau's disciplinary elder, entered from outside.
Yao Zhengxia had previously gone to Xiafeng Plain, then traveled to Yejin Mountain on an assignment. In the end, he had found only a black coffin and ordered his men to retrieve it and bring it back. Now he had come in person to pay his respects and give a detailed account of what he had seen.
"Greetings, Your Eminence. I went to the Xiafeng Branch Headquarters and traveled to Yejin Mountain with Sun Qing, an envoy from the alliance. We did not encounter the Supreme Heaven Sect mighty cultivator suspected of having emerged from the earth and revived, but we did discover a black coffin..."
Fang Qianyuan listened quietly until he finished, his face as still as an ancient well, without the slightest ripple. "Very well. I understand. You may withdraw."
"Yes..."
Soon afterward, Yao Zhengxia withdrew. Fang Qianyuan rose, descended from the Cloud Terrace, and left directly through the side hall.
This time, he was heading to the sect headquarters, where the black coffin was being kept.
He had seen such black coffins more than twenty years ago.
According to Grand Elder Tian Heng, they seemed to be implements the Supreme Heaven Sect needed to store their bodies and divine souls, carrying out their grand plan for a disguised form of immortality. Near Ye'e Sudiluo's Imperial City, in the ruins where the Flying Immortal Records had been hidden, he had ordered men to excavate eleven of them in one go.
Another had belonged to Xue Yetian, and that one had also been retrieved afterward.
These objects had previously been stored in the Hidden Treasury at the Azure Cloud Sect