At that boiling moment of jubilant celebration and glory, a figure shot toward Yun Qing with a whoosh, moving at a speed utterly out of step with the atmosphere.
It was none other than Second Elder Yun Yuan!
The old man's goatee bristled high, whether from lingering excitement over the battle or because old grudges and fresh grievances had surged up together. He seized Yun Qing's arm so forcefully that even Yun Qing, now a middle Immortal King, felt a hint of "danger" and inwardly sensed trouble.
"You little brat! I've finally caught you! Still trying to bluff your way through? Not a chance! What exactly happened in the Immortal-Sealing Tower? Oh, so now it's 'Brother Huang' this and 'elder brother' that? Three months apart, and how did you two get tangled up together?! You came back a middle Immortal King? Even immortal pills wouldn't work that fast!" The Second Elder sent his voice directly into Yun Qing's mind, raining questions down on him like cannon fire. His gaze was sharp and stubborn; plainly, he would not stop until he got what he wanted.
"I worried myself sick over you! Several tufts of my hair turned white from fretting! Unless you tell me the whole story today, every cause and consequence, every last detail, exactly as it happened, I'll haul my bedding into the main hall of your Heaven-Supporting Hall! I'll meditate on your doorstep every single day and see how long you can hide!"
That tempestuous barrage of "settling accounts" left Yun Qing's ears tingling. Sure enough, there was no escaping what had to come! He had known that, with the Second Elder's temperament, the old man would nag him for a hundred years unless he got to the bottom of this!
In the flash of a spark, Yun