While Huang Xiang and Li Dan were meeting secretly with members of the Two Sects, an uninvited guest also arrived at Tian Heng's residence on Cloud Summit Peak.
It was Lianshan, who had long remained hidden, concealing his movements and disappearing from the sight of those on the Righteous Path.
Grand Elder Tian Heng remained utterly composed at his sudden appearance. "I was wondering who it was. So it is you."
He had stationed quite a few guards on the mountain, but he had never expected them to stop a Heaven-Tier Powerhouse. They were mostly there to lend weight to his status.
Apart from Heaven-Tier Powerhouses themselves, only the grand formations at the headquarters of the major sects, or truly costly arrangements forming an inescapable net, could defend against Heaven-Tier Powerhouses.
This was not his permanent residence, nor had he ever entered secluded cultivation here, so he had installed none of those things.
Lianshan said, "Grand Elder, I am truly sorry for visiting unannounced. But I have something important to tell you this time, and I hope you will hear me out."
Tian Heng looked at him coldly. "Then speak."
Lianshan said, "What I have to tell you concerns our sect's greatest hidden secret, the grand plan of 'Profound Realm Ascension to Immortality.'"
He then recounted everything concerning Venerable Panling and Fang Qianyuan in full detail.
Ever since learning from Celestial Pivot that Mystic Heaven was Panling, and Panling was Mystic Heaven, he had been able to piece together the causes and consequences of these events himself by drawing on everything that had happened throughout history.
He believed Grand Elder Tian Heng and the others were far from ordinary men and would understand what he had told them.
Sure enough, the moment he revealed the secret of Mystic Heaven and