Outside Azure-Ming Peak, Jade Purity Immortal Sect.
Chen Beiwu rode Golden Egg back toward the Water-Evolving Residence, turning over the questioning and conversation at the Law Enforcement Bureau in his mind. The more he thought about it, the more wrong it felt.
Bzz!
Just then, his phone vibrated, and a message popped up.
Chen Beiwu glanced at it and connected the call with a thought. Senior Brother Jiang Chuan's voice immediately rang out.
"Junior Brother, where are you now?"
"Almost at the foot of Azure-Ming Peak. I'll be back at the Water-Evolving Residence soon," Chen Beiwu said.
Hearing this, Jiang Chuan relaxed inwardly.
Although he knew that old fox Jin Zhaoyang could not possibly let his junior brother suffer the slightest mistreatment, he still feared some unforeseen mishap.
"Senior Brother, you already know?" Chen Beiwu asked pointedly.
"Not just me. Even Eldest Senior Brother and the others have learned about this," Jiang Chuan said gravely.
Time slipped away easily. For powerful cultivators such as Nascent Soul True Lords, a single period of secluded cultivation lasted several years at the shortest, decades or even centuries at the longest-the equivalent of an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator's entire life.
Especially in recent years, Eldest Senior Brother Yue Chenfeng had been preparing to enter seclusion to attempt his breakthrough to Spirit Transformation Venerable. His mind immersed in the Great Dao, he lost track of the passing years, and each period of seclusion lasted decades. Second Senior Sister and Third Senior Brother were much the same, cultivating year-round without concerning themselves with outside affairs.
The Grotto-Ming Evergreen Lineage's only public spokesman within the Jade Purity Immortal Sect was True Lord Jiang Chuan, who served as deputy director of the Teaching Department.
It was precisely for this reason that the Law Enforcement Bureau's cultivators had been