Xu Taiping had barely finished speaking when Guangyuanzi's voice came from the Spirit Mirror again-
"Junior, ever since the Nine Abysses took control of the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, no one has reached its twelfth layer. What guarantee can you offer?"
Beneath that seemingly mild tone lurked a trace of anger, as though he had realized something.
Clearly, if Xu Taiping could not give Guangyuanzi a satisfactory answer, he might truly lose his temper.
"If we really anger the Eight Scenery Palace, neither of us may be able to enter the Mysterious Wasteland Tower."
Sensing the anger in Guangyuanzi's words, Mu Yun watched Xu Taiping in the Spirit Mirror and murmured to himself.
"Does the Eight Scenery Palace wield that much power in Shangqing's Cultivation World? Why did I never notice it before?"
Ji Ye turned to Mu Yun in surprise.
"With our cultivation and standing, how could we ever come into contact with these secluded sects? Only people like the old man have the chance to deal with them."
Mu Yun shook his head with a wry smile.
He likewise knew little about secluded sects such as the Eight Scenery Palace, but the tone in which his old man had just spoken was enough to reveal how wary sects like theirs were of those secluded sects.
After a brief silence, Xu Taiping spoke again:
"Senior, the real reason no one has managed to reach the Mysterious Wasteland Tower's twelfth layer again in all these years is that we fell into a trap the Nine Abysses laid in advance."
At this point, Xu Taiping took a Moonshadow Stone from inside his robes and infused it with True Essence.
Immediately, a scene of him discussing the Nine Abysses' plot to reverse time in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower with Gu Qingcheng appeared above