"Taiping, besides sending the Seven-Star Soul-Gathering Banner this time, Yellow Maple Valley also sent a letter of apology."
Half a month later.
In a study in the Nourishing Heart Pavilion on Sixth Peak, Sect Master Zhao Qian handed Xu Taiping a letter.
The two had just left White Rainbow's sickroom. At that moment, Peak Lord Meng Qingqiu was gathering White Rainbow's soul.
"Yellow Maple Valley is apologizing to me?"
Xu Taiping took the letter with some surprise.
Among the major sects of the Nine Prefectures, his relationship with Yellow Maple Valley was probably the worst.
Leaving aside this Sword Inquiry, back in the Immortal Gourd Secret Realm, he had killed quite a few of Yellow Maple Valley's Demonized Disciples. Later, in the Primordial Thousand Buddha Kingdom, he had even fought a Spirit Refining Realm Elder to the point of Liberation by Violence.
So he understood perfectly well why Yellow Maple Valley's disciples were hostile toward him.
"Apparently, it was the idea of one of Yellow Maple Valley's Guest Elders in the Nine Prefectures. That Elder had been in seclusion, trying to break through to the Transformation Realm. When he learned that Zhu Yuan had forcibly made Shen Li merge with Yellow Maple Valley's legacy, he flew into a rage. Together with several other Elders, he deposed Zhu Yuan, who had only been Valley Lord for a few years."
Zhao Qian explained with his arms folded across his chest.
"Was it that serious?"
Somewhat startled, Xu Taiping immediately opened the letter in his hands.
"I only found out a few days ago myself. Forcibly inheriting Yellow Maple Valley's 'Boiling Stone and Melting Gold' True Intent might cause no abnormalities in the short term, but several decades later, there's a very high chance the True Intent will turn on its inheritor, reducing