This was no small matter, whether for the Misty Immortal Sect or the other sects.
Normally, on the day after a sect master died, their sect would notify all the other major sects, then hold grand ceremonies to mourn them.
Yet in the end, the news had spread through street gossip instead.
That would have been normal enough if it were false. If it was true, however, what lay behind it warranted deeper thought.
Su Jiu took a sip of tea. "What happened?"
Su Qingqing leaned a little closer and lowered her voice. "Rumor has it that Peak Master Qian Ling and Peak Master Shui Rao'er did it together."
Su Jiu knew a little about the Misty Immortal Sect Master's romantic exploits.
"Was it a crime of passion?"
Su Qingqing shook her head. "It was a murder for power."
"Who runs the Misty Immortal Sect now?"
Su Qingqing shook her head again. "The Misty Immortal Sect split apart from within. There is no Misty Immortal Sect anymore.
"It has split directly into the Spirit Moon Sect and the Water Moon School."
Su Jiu's breath caught slightly. "Didn't the Misty Immortal Sect's elders and other peak masters do anything about such reckless nonsense?"
"Second Older Sister, you're so clever. Didn't it occur to you that they had planned this long ago?"
In her past life, the Misty Immortal Sect had never moved to the Azure Mist Continent, and she had never heard of anything happening to it, so she knew little about its specific circumstances.
She had, however, heard a little about its two female peak masters.
Those two were Qian Ling, Peak Master of Spirit Moon Peak, and Shui Rao'er, Peak Master of Water Moon Peak. She vaguely knew that the two women seemed to be at odds because of