Just then, the projection spoke again:
"This is a strand of divine sense I left in your Fan Tower. It would only appear once you returned to Moon Perching Pavilion."
Xu Taiping nodded first, then asked:
"Sister Lingyue, where are Bai Yu and Ping'an?"
The projection pointed toward Fan Tower and said:
"Come inside, and we'll talk."
She immediately added:
"The Nine Abysses is searching for you at any cost. I laid a Breath-Concealing Formation inside Fan Tower to cut off your aura."
Xu Taiping nodded and quickly followed her.
Had the Nine Abysses not been searching for him, he would not have needed to keep sleeping in the Taixuan Demon-Suppressing Coffin during his trials in the Scroll of Time.
After entering Fan Tower, Xu Taiping indeed discovered the formation Fairy Lingyue had laid inside, along with the talisman paper densely covering the surrounding walls.
Seeing Xu Taiping examining the talisman paper, the projection explained:
"The Azure Profound Sect uses this talisman paper to restrain ghost creatures. When you entered the Scroll of Time, another layer of Yuyangzi's seal loosened. Powerful ghost creatures have been crawling out from beneath Cloud Cottage Mountain from time to time."
Xu Taiping nodded, then murmured worriedly:
"I wonder when this scourge, Yuyangzi, can finally be dealt with for good."
The reason Yuyangzi had left such a deep impression on him was that his Lotus Eye had once shown him, through his junior sister Lin Buyu, that Yuyangzi would become one of her tribulations.
Just then, the projection formed from Fairy Lingyue's divine sense spoke again:
"Taiping, I found two excellent places for Bai Yu and Ping'an to undergo trials in the Land of Chaos in Outer Heaven. So when I left this time, I took them along."
Hearing this, Xu Taiping immediately breathed a