A Piao left Heavenly Light Peak, made her way out of Green Mountain by starlight, and boarded the Green-Curtain Sedan.
Back when she and Ping Yongjia had lived in Chaoge City for more than a decade, it had happened to be the Water-Moon Convent's turn on duty. The Convent Master knew her quite well, took her onto her lap, and reached the East Sea in a single night.
Morning light was just appearing, but the frost covering the wild grass all over the mountains was clearly unnatural. Much of the grass had snapped, and the collapsed cliffs and dead people showed all the more how savage yesterday's battle here had been.
"Convent Master!" The people from the Water-Moon Convent and Fruitful Accomplishment Temple rose to their feet, surprise and delight on their faces.
The Green-Curtain Sedan landed beneath a cliff. A ray of clear light passed through its curtain and brushed over Tong Yan's body like water, waking him.
A Piao looked at him in surprise and said, "You should be underground. Why are you here?"
Tong Yan briefly recounted what had happened in the Netherworld, then said, "The Blade Sage has already entered the Netherworld. He should be able to bring the situation under control. How are things at Green Mountain?"
A Piao had no time to recount all the major events that had taken place in the Green Mountain Sect that day. Waving her hand, she said, "Sir said your former master is down below. He wants you to work out a plan and have Cao Yuan kill her."
Tong Yan's expression shifted slightly. "Why would Venerable Master have gone to the Netherworld?"
"How would I know?" A Piao said. "Sir always talks like some muttering mystic, making things deliberately obscure. Just hurry down there."
Tong Yan's ingenuity