"This old man didn't dare make inquiries openly. I only investigated discreetly in the surrounding area!"
"After ten years of discreet inquiries, I still hadn't seen any of the people you mentioned. All I learned was that they disappeared not long after the Great Void Sect was wiped out!"
"Later, I went to Dingxiang City and spent some time asking around there, but I still found no news!"
After hearing Cheng Daocai's account, He Pingsheng fell silent.
Indeed!
Searching for his master and the others in the vast Dingxiang Commandery, in the vast Qi Kingdom, truly was like fishing for a needle in the sea.
But there was one thing he could be certain of: his master, Senior Master, senior brother, and senior sister were probably together.
Otherwise, they would not all have vanished without a trace.
Perhaps they had joined some sect?
"Young master, there's another major piece of news!" Cheng Daocai looked at He Pingsheng and said, "A peerless genius has emerged in Dingxiang Commandery!"
"A peerless genius?" He Pingsheng was immediately pulled from his thoughts. "Who?"
Cheng Daocai said, "His name is Xiao Xuan. Apparently, he comes from some sect called the Icebound Immortal Sect. This man is incredibly powerful!"
"He broke through to the golden core stage more than forty years ago, and he's already at the tenth layer of the golden core stage now. They also say he achieved golden core dao access when he broke through!"
"He's invincible within the golden core stage. He even escaped unscathed from a nascent soul realm cultivator!"
Xiao Xuan?
He Pingsheng thought for a moment before finally remembering who the fellow was.
The void spirit root!
No wonder it had already been more than forty years since he broke through to the golden core stage.
Counting carefully, He