Xiao Hua was slightly taken aback. He shot Liu Jing a sidelong glance and asked curiously, "Who did you hear these things from?"
"Hehe, this disciple joined the Thunder Control Sect, so naturally I would not know such secrets! However, among the disciples who accompanied me to East Ridge this time, there truly were several direct-line disciples of the Thunder Control Sect. Their channels of information are not as closed off as ours. I do not know where they got the news, but they told this disciple about it in private on the way here!" Liu Jing said with an ingratiating smile. "But since Senior Brother Xiao has been here for so many years without incident, these things must clearly be rumors!"
Xiao Hua considered it, then smiled. "Perhaps those things are true. But these past few years, I have only opened the formation at East Ridge Medicine Garden and never gone out unless necessary, so naturally I have not encountered anything strange! You presumably know that there is a forbidden area of our Thunder Control Sect near East Ridge Medicine Garden. Those senior predecessors who supposedly perished... were likely connected to that forbidden area! As long as we do not approach it, there should be no problem!"
"That is what I said!" Liu Jing laughed. "If something happened, they surely brought it upon themselves. Still, all the junior brothers insisted that I ask Senior Brother whether you had any secret methods for preserving one's life, so I had no choice but to ask!"
"Secret methods for preserving one's life?" Xiao Hua secretly found it amusing. *I killed Night Kite, so you naturally will no longer face any danger to your lives. As for the vicious hands of Foundation Establishment seniors, you presumably will not encounter those either! Where would