When the people of the Azure Tide Sect saw Su Jiu's flickering Soul Lamp suddenly stabilize, they finally felt reassured.
But the flame on the Soul Lamp was still extremely weak. It seemed she had only been rescued when her life hung by a thread.
Elsewhere, Yun Huanling had wanted to look for Su Jiu after waking up, but True Person Ning Shan told him that a senior from the Azure Tide Sect had already gone to rescue her. Only then did he agree to return to the Heavenly Secret Sect with True Person Ning Shan, though he remained uneasy throughout the journey.
Only after pressing for the identity of her rescuer did he feel completely at ease. He had never expected it to be Chu Mojin. That was Chu Mojin, the foremost cultivator of the Spirit Severing Stage.
Thinking back to Su Jiu's conversation with that demonic cultivator, he realized that it was not just Su Jiu who had noticed her captor's bone-deep hatred of the Azure Tide Sect. With someone harboring such malice toward the sect, that girl was bound to suffer after being taken captive.
After they returned to the Heavenly Secret Sect, its members warmly welcomed Ning Shan and his party. But with Su Jiu possibly still in grave danger, they politely declined the hospitality and hurried back to their own sect.
Wen Ruyi planned to begin recruiting disciples for the Azure Fall Sect again, but her greatest concern was the missing Sect Leader.
From the day she had found only the bodies of the sect's elders, she had known that certain things had already gone beyond her expectations.
Apart from the unconscious Su Jiu, no one understood better than she did how dangerous the Sect Leader was now.
Before Chu Mojin left, she wrestled with