Questions Aplenty

In truth, Zhang Xiaohua had lain atop the roof outside the previous night and overheard every word of Qiutong's conversation with Old Yu. He had already formed some impressions, and hearing it again now made everything even clearer. Without realizing it, he had gained a rough understanding of why the Misty Sect had been destroyed, and why the Incense-Passing Cult had joined forces with the Great Forest Temple and the Righteous Path Alliance to seize it.

Although Ou Yan, Qiutong, and Old Yu had lived through the destruction of the Misty Sect, they were, after all, merely Martial Way practitioners and people of the Misty Sect. They knew nothing of the wonders of the Immortal Path, nor did they know the Incense-Passing Cult's true nature. Zhang Xiaohua, on the other hand, happened to be an Immortal Path Qi Practitioner. He understood Immortal Path Cultivation Techniques and Immortal Path alchemy, and he had even visited You Lan Grand Canyon, so he knew some of the Incense-Passing Cult's secrets. Thus, what he could see reached much farther than what the other three could.

Zhang Xiaohua had encountered many Immortal Path pills, but he had never even heard of this "Longevity Pill." That alone showed how precious it was. With such pills and such a map, one could figure it out even with one's heels: what the Incense-Passing Cult sought was certainly not this single bottle of pills, but their source—the place marked upon that incomplete map!

And did that place contain martial arts manuals? Did it contain pills that could increase one's inner strength out of thin air?

No, absolutely not. What the Incense-Passing Cult wanted to find were Immortal Path Cultivation Techniques and Immortal Path alchemy!

Yet once he reached that thought, Zhang Xiaohua felt another thread of confusion. The Incense-Passing