Yun Huanling was to Hongguang what Xia Jue was to Ning Hai.
After peace returned to the world, disciples and elders with any sense rarely mentioned Yun Huanling in front of Hongguang.
People had to look forward. Even for the sake of their cultivation level, they could not force themselves to remain trapped in memories of the past for someone who was already gone.
And so, though Yun Huanling had left a brand on everyone's heart, his name was seldom spoken within the Heavenly Secret Sect...
Only occasionally would Lan Fang Ziyi catch a junior brother secretly carving a little figurine of him, or notice someone lingering a little longer as they passed Yun Huanling's room.
Even Hongguang and the other elders always found all manner of reasons and excuses to go and "pay their respects" to the Heaven-Connecting Tower that had reappeared.
His master, in particular-the oil-paper parcels he carried actually contained all of Yun Huanling's favorite foods...
To them, Yun Huanling seemed to have left, yet also seemed never to have left at all.
His room had been preserved exactly as it was...
Of course, perhaps that was also because he had personally forbidden anyone from touching his things.
Everything in the sect looked perfectly normal, no different from before, but everyone knew that some things had changed.
The instant Su Jiu scattered Heaven's Gift back then, many of their fellow disciples who had been implanted with demon seeds revealed their true forms.
Some had actually been dead for a long time, their bodies merely possessed and controlled by demon seeds. Naturally, these were also the ones who met the most horrific deaths amid Heaven's Gift.
They had turned to ash and vanished before everyone's eyes.
Lan Fang Ziyi would never forget that sight, nor would he ever