Chen Runzi and Chen Yuanji...
The Yuluo Immortal Mansion?
However dispirited Ai Jian was, however stagnant his heart had become, he had to rouse himself now, his expression turning stern and his brows knitting.
He knew Chen Ying was a son of Jade Pivot True Lord, whose fearsome reputation resounded throughout the Nine Provinces and Four Seas, as were Chen Runzi and Chen Yuanji.
But the two sides stood on entirely different ground.
Chen Ying had joined Chen Jade Pivot, bowing obediently and willingly submitting to his commands.
Chen Runzi, Chen Yuanji, and their companions, however, hated Chen Jade Pivot to the marrow for obstructing their Dao Paths and taking lives. With the Yuluo Immortal Mansion in their hands and Daoist Kongkong watching over them, they had repeatedly thwarted Chen Jade Pivot's plans.
The two sides had long since become irreconcilable.
Especially after Chen Jade Pivot and Chen Xiangxian exchanged a single move eight hundred years ago.
The former had his Dragon-Horn Great-Killing Sword broken, losing the sword he carried;
The latter had his physical body destroyed on the spot and was hurriedly rescued by Chen Runzi, Great Sage Zhulong, and the others. He had never appeared in the world again, and no one knew whether he still lived.
Their enmity had only deepened, neither willing to rest until the other was dead.
Such accounts had always been curiosities among the various sects and clans. Ai Jian had only ever listened and let them pass, paying little attention.
Never had he imagined that he would become embroiled in them himself.
For a moment.
Even his grief over Wang Shu's death was forcibly suppressed, leaving only horror and gnawing unease.
Chen Ying had always belonged to Chen Jade Pivot's side. While Chen Jade Pivot was confined within his Grotto-Heaven, imprisoned within