Seven days later, Xinshu left the courtyard with a determined expression and returned to the Western Sea.
The Daoist saw her off with a smile.
Since his return from Tubo, these days snatched from his busy schedule had also been the longest Xinshu had stayed with him since coming from the south. Explaining so many things thoroughly to his junior sister had certainly not been easy. But the facts also proved that, so long as she truly wanted to learn, her aptitude for cultivation was quite good.
As for the White Jiao, that had naturally been the Daoist's doing. The rumors were true: Longbrow had indeed suppressed this demon beneath Western Kunlun Mountain. Its location, however, lay beyond Western Kunlun in the narrow sense, in the Tubo stretch outside Hehuang's western border. More plainly put, it was at the dragon neck of the Western Kunlun mountain range in the broader sense. After all, the Western Kunlun Cult had still existed back then. However capable Longbrow might have been, silently placing a Fourth Realm Jiao Dragon beneath an Archetypal Sect's mountain headquarters should hardly have been possible. Fortunately, that was the case; otherwise, Blood God Child would probably have discovered it long ago.
Only after taking up his post in Western Kunlun had the Daoist discovered the anomaly there, while untangling the Dragon Vein in an attempt to reconnect the severed Earth Vein at Kunlun's dragon head with the dragon neck. He had gone to investigate and found the White Jiao. At the time, she had been at her last gasp, not far from death, so the Daoist had lent her a hand. This Demon Jiao's debts of sin could be verified. Back then, she had run rampant in the north, called Jiupanpo her sister, and even raised a flood to