In truth, even Lan Fang Ziyi himself did not quite believe that excuse.
He still remembered that day three years ago. Everything in the Azure Realm had remained calm, and only a handful of people knew that the positions of the stars had fallen into disarray for an instant that night.
Though it had lasted only a fleeting instant, the Heavenly Secret Sect had still detected it.
Then they had discovered something very strange: the image of that red star was fading.
Yun Huanling had nearly gone mad over those few days.
Had that red star not stopped fading a few days later, no one knew what else Yun Huanling might have done.
Afterward, they had sent word to the Azure Tide Sect, asking about Su Jiu.
The answer they received was that she might have been trapped in a secret realm. But both he and Yun Huanling knew that if she had merely been trapped in a secret realm, how could her fate star possibly have begun to fade?
That Message Talisman had carried an inquiry from Yun Huanling in a personal capacity, so the Azure Tide Sect had suspected nothing.
Yun Huanling, however, had been badly frightened. From that day onward, he had practically lived on the Distant Lookout Platform, even meditating at the foot of its steps.
Lan Fang Ziyi climbed onto the Distant Lookout Platform and examined the few fate stars the Heavenly Secret Sect had long kept a close eye on.
Zheng Qilong's fate star still shone brilliantly, while the former Child of Destiny's fate star now looked little different from an ordinary person's.
The two fate stars were now so far apart that the line which had once connected them had broken.
The former Child of Destiny had become an ordinary person after all.