Yin San was, at most, only at the level of the Wandering the Wilds Realm now. He was not yet truly True Person Taiping.
Jing Jiu knew even more clearly that something was wrong with his body, and that he could not yet pose a real threat to the Green Mountain Sect.
The Green Mountain Sect's greatest enemies remained Nan Qu and his disciple Xilai.
Watching the ruined temple draw closer in his field of vision, watching the red lantern sway in the wind, Jing Jiu quickly ran through his calculations of the past few days once more.
Back then, Green Mountain had seized Nan Qu's First Child Sword and kept it in the Imperial Palace. It had not been brought out until the Battle of Cloud Terrace, and had finally returned to the Western Sea Sword Sect.
The Green Mountain Sect had confirmed that the Western Sea had not sent the First Child Sword back to Mist Island.
Why had Nan Qu not reclaimed his sword?
Others could not understand it, but his own experience had led him to guess at one possibility.
Nan Qu had refined himself into a Sword Ghost, so he no longer needed the First Child Sword.
If that were true, where had Nan Qu's Sword Ghost gone now? The Western Sea, or Green Mountain?
But the important question was, if Nan Qu's Sword Ghost had gone elsewhere, then what was this Nan Qu inside the Black Coffin?
A cold corpse, or something like a scabbard?
Would this Nan Qu inside the coffin wake up?
As he considered these things, he had already followed Nan Wang to the ruined temple.
The Green Mountain Sect had already struck in the Western Sea. It was time for them to extinguish this red lantern.
The red lantern might