Xu Taiping sighed, then looked at Xu Ziyan and said solemnly:
"Senior Sister Ziyan, in that case, I can only support Second Senior Brother in taking the other path."
The other path naturally meant killing the Mad Monk and claiming this Great Dao for himself.
Xu Ziyan first sighed, then said stubbornly:
"Then I want to stay here with you too."
Dugu Qingxiao frowned, somewhat hesitant.
In the end, however, he nodded and said:
"All right. If we both stay here, we can look out for each other."
As he spoke, he suddenly looked at Xu Taiping with a serious expression and said:
"Taiping, there is another reason I want to claim this Great Dao for myself."
Xu Taiping's heart tightened.
"Second Senior Brother, you know about the Calamity that befell the Azure Profound Sect too?"
Dugu Qingxiao hesitated, then looked gravely at Xu Taiping and said:
"Taiping, there is something I cannot keep from you."
Xu Taiping's heart lurched, and an ominous premonition arose within him.
Then Dugu Qingxiao continued, his expression grave:
"In the Yellow Springs, I encountered the wandering souls of Third Junior Brother Zhang Qian, Fifth Junior Sister Wu Mo... and Eighth Junior Brother Wu Liang."
At those words, Xu Taiping felt as though he had been struck by lightning.
He naturally knew that the Taixuan Ghost Domain was extraordinarily dangerous, but when death lay so starkly before him, he still found it somewhat difficult to accept.
And so Xu Taiping asked, a slight tremor in his voice:
"Second Senior Brother, are you certain you weren't mistaken?"
Dugu Qingxiao nodded heavily and said:
"I'm certain."
He added:
"The reason I was able to see them was that, before they died, they had been specifically instructed to seek me out."
"Junior Brother Wu Liang even used his