Back when the Sect Master True Person and Yuan Qijing had traveled far to the Western Sea, it had been Fang Jingtian's best chance to kill him and silence him, but he had not appeared. Someone must have told him.
Jing Jiu's suspects included the Sect Master and Yuan Qijing themselves, and even White Ghost, but he had forgotten the one with the keenest eyesight among the Green Mountain Nine Peaks.
He rubbed the bamboo token in his hand, thinking about this.
Remembering that Fang Jingtian, the Peak Master of Past Arrival Peak, was also that man's disciple, Zhao Layue fell silent for a moment before asking, "As you said, Daoist cultivators usually take disciples very late in life. Why did True Person Taiping take disciples so early, and so many of them?"
This was the first time she had directly mentioned that name and the events associated with it in front of Jing Jiu.
She wanted to appear calm and composed, but her voice still trembled slightly.
"That man's thinking was very unusual. He never believed in worldly ties or karmic consequences, so naturally he did not fear them. He thought anyone who could cultivate should cultivate. He also believed there was strength in numbers, so he began taking disciples very early..."
Jing Jiu paused, then continued, "If he hadn't been unable to imagine his own bloodline being replicated, he might already have fathered tens of thousands of children."
Zhao Layue could not understand it. She thought True Person Taiping's ideas were far too strange.
That was because Jing Jiu had not told her all of Taiping's ideas. Otherwise, Zhao Layue would not have found them strange, but would instead have felt utter terror.
Just like Jing Jiu at this moment-even after several hundred years, when he recalled Taiping's