Within Blade Ghost's Infernal Blade Prison, the fastest way to restore one's physique and fighting strength was to kill oneself and revive.
Seeing this, Blade Ghost glanced at Xu Taiping with a smile and said:
"This lad is looking more and more like you when you first entered my Blade Prison for your trial."
Xu Taiping smiled.
"Senior Blade Ghost, do you mean he's suffering just as badly as I did?"
Beside him, Dongfang Yuejian immediately asked with great curiosity:
"Eldest Brother Taiping, did you suffer this badly too?"
Blade Ghost gave a hearty laugh at her words.
Then, after glancing at Dongfang Yuejian, Xu Taiping suddenly grew serious again and asked Blade Ghost:
"Senior Blade Ghost, do you truly not remember a cultivator named Kang Cangzi?"
This was already the second time Xu Taiping had asked Blade Ghost this question.
The first had naturally been a month ago, when he first learned from Dongfang Yuejian that the name Blade Ghost had appeared in a travelogue written by the Dongfang Household's ancestor.
Judging by the travelogue's contents, the cultivator who called himself Blade Ghost, whose temperament and even manner of speaking closely resembled Senior Blade Ghost's, had traveled with another cultivator named Kang Cangzi through a secret realm called Yellow Millet Cave Heaven in Chenglong Heaven, where they happened to encounter the Dongfang Household's ancestor.
But from their meeting to their parting, there had been no twists or turns. The three had merely explored Yellow Millet Cave together and shared a round of drinks.
The only unusual thing was that after those drinks, the Dongfang Household's ancestor had not only slept for thirty years but also gained a full jiazi of cultivation power.
It was only many years later, when the Eastern Ancestor tasted that wine again, that he learned