Many years ago, the Heaven-Bearing Sword had returned from overseas, Liu Ci had turned into a shower of spring rain, and the Green Mountain Sect's Sect Master's Seat had fallen vacant. Jing Jiu had said, "I'll do it." Who could have imagined that Fang Jingtian would then attain Heavenly Access amid a mountainful of wildflowers, and True Person Taiping would make A Piao into a letter, forcing him straight out of Green Mountain?
Jing Jiu had stayed for a time in Jing Garden outside Yunji Town, drawing countless cultivators from across the world on pilgrimage. But only two people had been able to enter Jing Garden and see him: Zhou Yunmu and his disciple Lu Jin of the Xuantian Sect. People believed they must have received tremendous benefits-whether cultivation methods or elixirs.
Possessing a jade made one guilty. After they left Jing Garden, people whose eyes had turned red with jealousy began hunting them down. Fortunately, the Twofold Forgetting Peak Disciples and Su Ziye protected them in succession. Over the following hundred-odd years, the Evil Path declined, and the situation in the Cultivation World gradually settled. Those who had been watching the Xuantian Sect discovered nothing special about the master and disciple, and gradually relaxed their vigilance until they forgot the matter altogether. In truth, however, the two had indeed taken something away from Jing Garden.
Even Zhao Layue knew nothing of this.
That black plaque was neither the Green Mountain Sect's Sect Master Token nor the emerald-green Life Tablet of Yin Phoenix. Its purpose was unknown.
Lu Jin took the black plaque, finding it remarkably heavy, and asked, "Shall we set out now, then?"
"If this plaque really is some extraordinary treasure, I'm afraid it will stir up towering waves," Zhou Yunmu said. "Stay here and oversee the sect.