Jing Jiu looked at the sky outside the window and remained silent for a long time.
Silence seemed to contain nothing, but it often represented a certain emotion.
This was rarely seen in him, because it was entirely different from staring blankly.
A cloud had drifted over from the south.
The shock those words brought him was far greater than the appearance of the two important figures from the Netherworld.
A faint regret arose in his heart. Since he had decided not to read this letter from his Senior Brother, why had he ended up reading it after all?
But this was indeed a letter he had to read personally, because its contents were too important.
The only thing in the world that could temporarily smooth over the unfathomable rift between him and his Senior Brother, and make his Senior Brother forget that bottomless hatred... was that cloud from the south.
Of course he knew what those words meant, and why his Senior Brother had gone so far as to use the Nether Master to notify him as soon as possible.
That cloud from the south was actually a bank of fog shrouding a group of islands, with an old man hidden within it.
That old man was called Nan Qu, the first of the Chaotian Continent's Sword Evaders, and the Green Mountain Sect's most powerful enemy.
Back then, it was because of this man that their Patriarch, True Person Guangyuan, had failed in his ascension and dissolved where he sat.
When he ascended in his previous life, he had looked upon heaven and earth without regret. But if there were things he had to do before leaving, killing Nan Qu would certainly have ranked among the top three.
Unfortunately, Nan Qu had remained hidden in the fog, and he