When he reached a suspended corridor, Qing Chen stopped and looked up toward Taiwei Hall deep within the Sea of Clouds.
Emperor Jingtai had suddenly summoned him to the Southern Study, most likely not for idle conversation.
Taken together with Wei Jin's earlier mention of Ding Buxing, Qing Yuanjia, and the Reincarnation Dead Sea, this [Southern Study deliberation] was almost certainly connected to that Darkness Forbidden Zone.
"The Eighth Prince lives on Jade Capital Mountain now, too. I might as well ask him first."
After a moment's thought, Qing Chen took a Coiling Dragon Jade Talisman from his Storage Magic Treasure.
The Eighth Prince had personally given him this talisman for communication years ago. Within the Divine Capital and Jade Capital Mountain, it could transmit messages directly as long as no special restriction blocked it.
Qing Chen formed a seal with his fingers and sent a strand of divine sense into it.
Purple light flashed across the talisman's surface before it became a slender streak of light, shooting away through a spiritual energy channel left within Jade Capital Mountain's internal formation.
Before half an incense stick had burned, an identical streak of light returned from the distance.
Qing Chen caught the talisman between his fingers. Inside was only a single line: "Dew-Bearing Garden, Rain-Listening Pavilion. I await you, Brother Qing."
"What a coincidence." Qing Chen put away the talisman without thinking further.
Five-Colored Spiritual Light flashed beneath his feet, and his figure rode a wisp of extremely faint cloud qi over several suspended spiritual gardens, flying toward the Dew-Bearing Garden.
But he did not notice that the instant he activated his Escape Light, his figure seemed to disappear half a moment before the Five-Colored Spiritual Light.
That was not him deliberately circulating the "Timeless Scripture."
It was a trace of