With the Green Mountain Sect Master personally presiding and the Zhongzhou Sect harboring its own ideas, even though sects such as the Kunlun Sect questioned the outcome of the Dao-Seeking Assembly, they could no longer change it.
Whether they had sought the cauldron or seized it, the Immortal Register had finally found its owner, and the celebration of the Zhongzhou Sect's thirty-thousandth anniversary drew to a close.
That night, Bai Zao went to the Skin-Shedding House to see Jing Jiu, wanting to discuss some things with him, but found no one there. This left her somewhat uneasy.
As she left in silence, He Zhan had already departed Yunmeng Mountain. When Se Se discovered this, she chased him for five hundred li, but still failed to bring him back.
Xi Yiyun also took his leave of the Zhongzhou Sect and departed that very night, returning to the One-Thatch Studio to put that book in order.
Many others left early as well, all Dao-Seekers who had entered the Azure Sky Mirror Illusion. Decades in the mortal dust dispersed before their eyes like smoke and clouds, but who could truly forget it all in a single morning? They needed time to steady their Dao hearts again, then gain what they truly needed from those insights into mortal life. Three years later, they might meet again at Yunmeng Mountain, or they might never see one another again in this life. It depended only on whether they could ultimately see their way through this trial.
Early the next morning, led by Peak Masters Fang Jingtian and Nan Wang, the Green Mountain disciples said farewell to their fellow Daoists of the Zhongzhou Sect, then departed aboard the Sword Boat.
Bai Zao saw no sign of Jing Jiu and felt vaguely uneasy. Only after hearing Fang Jingtian's