Returning to the Profound Elixir Palace, a conversation with the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage!

The Dragon-Trapping Tower.

Inside the main hall on the first floor.

Like everyone else entering Xu Taiping's Dragon-Trapping Tower for the first time, Feng Tianxing and Jiang Xuanfeng had their eyes drawn to that pair of Gold Essence Stones and the golden silkworm as soon as they entered.

But both men knew their boundaries and asked no further questions.

Only Feng Tianxing remarked with feeling:

"Taiping, you've built up quite a fortune for yourself!"

Xu Taiping smiled.

"It's nothing compared to what you have, Brother Feng."

Feng Tianxing wasted no words and went straight to the point.

"Taiping, I'll now take out the treasure the Profound Elixir Palace uses to communicate with the Upper Realm. When the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage questions you, you must take it seriously."

The reason he reminded Xu Taiping of this.

Was naturally that he feared Xu Taiping might say something improper while answering the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage's questions and anger him.

Xu Taiping nodded.

"Rest assured, Eldest Brother. Of course I will."

Hearing this, Feng Tianxing nodded lightly, then took an azure jade inkstone covered in densely carved runes from his sleeve.

Then Feng Tianxing mixed a drop of blood from his fingertip into the pine-soot bone ink seeping into the inkstone's well and began writing in midair.

"Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, this is Feng Tianxing. I have brought him here for you. Ask whatever you wish."

The moment his voice fell, a boom rang out, and the line of floating words abruptly transformed into a surging torrent of vast righteous qi that soared skyward.

Then Feng Tianxing explained to Xu Taiping and the others, whose faces were filled with surprise:

"This is the Azure Jade Crane-Shadow Inkstone, once used by a Confucian Sect Sage. After years of being steeped in the vast righteous qi within