He stood in the square.
Li Ping sank his divine sense into the Sound Transmission Talismans in his hand and examined them one by one.
A moment later, he rubbed his hands together, destroying all three talismans, and a thoughtful look appeared on his face.
What Yan Hengchuan had mentioned in the three Sound Transmission Talismans was mostly trivial, unremarkable news, but Li Ping had noticed something unusual in it.
One piece of news, for instance.
The Academy had demanded the Treasure, the Seal of All Beings, from the Spirit Taming Sect, asking Lu Old Devil to return it. The Spirit Taming Sect had flatly refused, and the two sides were still arguing back and forth.
What caught Li Ping's attention was not the Seal of All Beings itself, but the timing of the Academy's demand.
According to Yan Hengchuan's account in the Sound Transmission Talisman, the Seal of All Beings had once been wielded by Xiao Changkong, the Western Wasteland's Foremost Cultivator. But in the great war a century ago, Xiao Changkong had died at Lu Old Devil's hands, and the seal had fallen into Lu Old Devil's possession.
Later, under Lu Old Devil's threats, the Academy had been forced to detonate Donghua Mountain's Sect-Protecting Grand Formation and withdraw from the mountain.
For over a century, the Academy had never given up on reclaiming Donghua Mountain.
However, under Lu Old Devil's direction, Donghua Mountain had been transformed into a public Market Ward.
This arrangement had taken into account the interests of every power in the Western Wasteland except the Academy.
Even fellow members of the Defender Alliance, such as the Crimson Flame Sect and Purple Cloud Valley, were unwilling to see the Academy return to Donghua Mountain, quietly forming a restraining force within the alliance.
And ever since Xiao