Blade had gotten his way!
At that instant, frustration surged through Yanqing.
Blade was still walking toward them.
His hands were empty, but Yanqing did not dare let his guard down in the slightest.
Just then, something unexpected happened.
The Ancient Sea Waters rose into the air, and several streams swept around Dan Heng's body.
He was enveloped in a sphere of gathered water. Then, all at once, he vanished from everyone's sight.
He had dissolved into the water!
The sword that had pierced his body fell free.
Blade explained to Yanqing:
"Boy, do you know who you were protecting? He committed the ten heinous crimes, betrayed the Xianzhou, sparked a great rebellion, and was exiled for eternity-
"The Vidyadhara High Elder, Imbibitor Lunae."
Yanqing's pupils shook!
Imbibitor Lunae!
Yanqing finally understood why that man had looked familiar when he first saw him.
There was a statue of a former High Elder in Scalegorge Waterscape. Yanqing had seen it many times while patrolling there.
Although he did not know exactly which generation of High Elder the statue depicted, before the current High Elder, Bailu, all the successive High Elders of the Luofu Vidyadhara had been reincarnations of the same person. Their appearances differed very little.
So the man Blade killed was the previous High Elder's reincarnation?
Yanqing was stunned for a moment.
And the title Imbibitor Lunae was even more familiar to him.
He had once sneaked into the Divine Strategy Office's secret archive and read a classified scroll documenting a rebellion aboard the Xianzhou Luofu-
Disquieting Dan Feng.
The rebellion was not all that long ago, less than seven hundred years. By the lifespan of a Xianzhou native, many of those involved were still alive.
Strangely, however, those who knew about it were reluctant to say much, and the