When Xue Qing pricked up her ears to hear what Zhang Xiaohu meant by "and furthermore," Zhang Xiaohu abruptly stopped, waved a hand, and said, "Since Hall Master Xue has no objections, please take your seat. From this day forward, you will be responsible for the affairs of the Fledgling Eagle Hall. Rebuild it as soon as possible—the inheritance of our Misty Sect's tradition will rest upon their shoulders!"
"Tradition? Inheritance???" Others might have felt nothing upon hearing this, but Li Jian could not help being startled. Zhang Xiaohu was merely Wen Wenhai's disciple, trained in martial arts. Moreover, Wen Wenhai himself had not been the Misty Sect's chief senior disciple, and only knew that the Misty Sect possessed an Immortal Path inheritance. As for how it was inherited, he was completely in the dark. Ou Peng and Zhang Chengyue had died in haste, leaving nothing behind. The Misty Sect's martial arts had continued, but its Immortal Path... at its roots, its inheritance had already been severed.
"Perhaps he just said it casually!" Li Jian could only think this way. After all, even he, Ou Peng's second senior brother, did not know what the Misty Sect's Immortal Path inheritance truly was. How could Zhang Xiaohu... a disciple who had joined the Misty Sect halfway through... possibly know?
But suddenly, Li Jian shuddered as he thought of the senior with deep ties to the Misty Sect whom Zhang Xiaohu, Du Feng, and Ding Chao had mentioned. "Could it be..." Yet the instant this thought arose, he snuffed it out. "Sigh, have I become muddleheaded with age? Am I thinking too much because I hope for the Misty Sect's revival? The Misty Sect's Immortal Path has been unable to pass on for who knew how many years. Even Ou Peng never obtained