Su Jiu thought again of the time in her previous life when the Azure Tide Sect had nearly been wiped out.
Senior Brother was clearly so powerful, so why had the Azure Tide Sect met such an end?
Su Jiu always felt that the book had left certain things unexplained, as though it had forced an ending simply for the sake of ending the story. In its later portions, implausibilities and muddled logic were everywhere.
If the Azure Tide Sect truly met such an end, a single Phoenix could not possibly have been the sole cause.
Then had something else happened along the way that the book never explained?
Although she had not yet lived as long in this life as she had in her previous one, she understood far more about this world.
She had also gained a new understanding of the strength behind the Azure Tide Sect.
Even the elders of Cloudmist Peak would never have tolerated the Azure Tide Sect being brought to the brink of destruction.
Unless... something had happened to both the Enforcement Hall and Cloudmist Peak...
The more Su Jiu thought, the colder her hands and feet grew, and the greater the horror and unease in her heart became...
"Junior Sister? Junior Sister?"
Su Jiu abruptly came back to herself and saw Xia Jue's face, full of concern.
At some point, their breathing meditation had ended without her noticing.
"Junior Sister, are you all right?" Xia Jue offered her a white handkerchief, with an unknown pale blue flower printed in one corner.
Su Jiu paused. It looked just like the mark on her face, except that this flower had nine petals.
Seeing her stare, Xia Jue smiled gently. "When you underwent your Golden Core tribulation transcendence, this was what the flower that appeared in