Time returned to half a year earlier.
Inside the Golden Court Grotto-Heaven, which drifted through the chaos of Outer Heaven.
"Boss Lingyue, that person you asked to find the Dragon-Slaying Stele isn't going to run into trouble, is he?"
Bai Yu and Ping'an sat upright before a golden lotus possessed by Fairy Lingyue and asked with great curiosity.
Behind them, bursts of sword cries rang out from time to time within the Dragon-Trapping Tower, which stood several hundred zhang tall.
Fairy Lingyue glanced habitually toward the Dragon-Trapping Tower, then said with great certainty:
"The person we commissioned is named Immortal Elder Wuji. He holds the Fourth Seat of the Abyssal Pavilion. His cultivation makes him one of the best not only within the Five Heavens of the Shangqing Realm, but even among the cultivators of Outer Heaven."
Fairy Lingyue's brows knitted slightly as she continued:
"If even Immortal Elder Wuji cannot retrieve that Dragon-Slaying Stele, we can only wait another fifty-odd years or find another way."
The Dragon-Slaying Stele Fairy Lingyue spoke of was, in fact, one of the ninety-nine stone steles connected to the exits of the ninety-nine rooms within the Dragon-Trapping Tower.
The reason Azure-Eyed Evil Lord's junior sister Zhu Songyu had been able to find Xu Taiping more than fifty years earlier.
Was precisely because of the Dragon-Slaying Stele in the secret realm where she had been.
And the Dragon-Slaying Stele Fairy Lingyue wanted Immortal Elder Wuji to find was that very same one Zhu Songyu had possessed.
This was also the method Fairy Lingyue had discovered more than fifty years earlier for leaving this secret realm.
At the time, while recovering her strength within the golden lotus, she had inadvertently sensed the aura of the Abyssal Pavilion through the Red Essence Yin-Yang Mirror.
She had immediately