Inside the karst cave.
"So you had an eminent monk from Cloud-Hidden Temple helping you. No wonder you managed to find this hidden place."
After following Xu Taiping into the underground cave, Princess Tiancheng met Monk Xuanzhi, and the lingering tension on her face vanished completely.
Xu Taiping, however, seemed not to have heard her. His gaze remained fixed on Princess Tiancheng's legs.
Starting from her legs, Princess Tiancheng's body was slowly turning transparent.
"It seems you noticed too, Senior Brother Xu."
A faint, bitter smile appeared on Princess Tiancheng's face.
"What's going on?"
Xu Taiping asked, somewhat puzzled.
"I only escaped by sending my Primordial Spirit Out-of-Body. My physical body is still imprisoned at the bottom of the pool in Golden Toad Valley, just like Master's."
Princess Tiancheng answered calmly.
Though it was only a simple sentence, the information it contained was enough to leave Xu Taiping pondering for a long time.
"My Primordial Spirit doesn't have much time left here."
Princess Tiancheng frowned and beckoned the silver flying sword and the openwork bronze sphere carved with two carp to her. Only then did she say to Xu Taiping with great solemnity:
"Senior Brother Xu, I know you have many questions right now, but time is limited. Please let me finish telling you the most urgent matters first."
"Please go ahead."
Xu Taiping nodded.
"Master and I were framed ten years ago and imprisoned together in the Demonic Flood Dragon Pool in Golden Toad Valley."
"Several other experts were imprisoned there as well, along with a Demon Cultivator with an extremely high cultivation level."
"With Master's cultivation, opening the door of the water prison at the bottom of the pool should have taken one or two months at most."
"But just as we were about to open the door,