Inside a guest room at the Mysterious Cloud Martial Hall.
"I've always felt that there's something deeply incongruous about your Azure Profound Sect. It clearly retains the ways of a great sect of antiquity, yet its disciples' cultivation cannot measure up. Ninth Uncle's strength has clearly long stood unrivaled throughout True Martial Heaven, yet he willingly stays tucked away in a corner of Qingxuan."
"All these signs suggest that the Azure Profound Sect has been hiding something."
Inside the room, Fairy Lingyue sat beside Xu Taiping.
While sealing One-Leaf Book's brand, she could only manifest for a short time each day to meet Xu Taiping. Otherwise, even Mind-to-Mind Voice Transmission might become impossible.
"The source of these secrets might all lie with my master, the Azure Profound Sect's Junior Martial Uncle."
Xu Taiping nodded.
"In his letter earlier, the sect master said that Master might not be able to hold on much longer. That's very likely connected to this as well."
He recalled the letter the sect master had left him.
"Judging by what Lu Yun just said, this junior sister of your master's clearly knows something. And she came from True Martial Heaven to Youyun Heaven precisely to find a solution."
Fairy Lingyue offered her conjecture.
Xu Taiping nodded, then looked down at the jade box in his hands and said,
"Let's take a look."
Had it been the Azure Profound Sect of the past, he would not really have had much attachment to it. But things were different now. The people closest to him in this world were there.
So he had to find out exactly what had happened there.
Only then could he properly protect that place and its people.
Crack!
Just as Lu Yun had explained, opening the jade box required only an infusion of an