After returning to the sect, Song Yan first visited the Memorial Spirit Hall.
During the Qingming season, quite a few cultivators came here to pay their respects to their fallen sectmates.
Some names on the spirit tablets were familiar, others unfamiliar.
Soon, he found the person in the corner.
"You were here, just as I thought."
Xu Ziqing sat before Xu Ziling's cenotaph, with a strange lamp beside him.
The lamp was filled with bright yellow light, a golden flame blazing within it. At the heart of the flame was a faint, blurry speck of black.
On closer inspection, one could make out a kneeling figure.
Xu Ziqing raised his head. "Ah, Peak Master Song."
Song Yan lowered his gaze to the lamp. "It seems your younger sister has been avenged."
Led by Xu Ziqing, Peak Master of Dongyuan Sect's Tongchen Peak, cultivators from across the Chu Kingdom had joined forces in a campaign that killed every Golden Core cultivator of the Xuanyuan Sect.
Not one had escaped the Chu Kingdom.
Among them, True Person Shuihan had naturally received Xu Ziqing's special "attention."
"I have you to thank for that."
Xu Ziqing said, "Before, I thought that once I became a Golden Core True Person, I could find an opportunity to perish together with that man."
"But when that day truly came, I found myself unwilling to implicate my sectmates in the Dongyuan Sect."
"My sister suffered a pitiful fate, but how innocent were the disciples of our sect?"
"Fortunately, you returned."
"What treasure is this?" Song Yan asked, looking at the lamp.
Xu Ziqing smiled. "As expected of the Peak Master of Demon-Exorcising Peak. You've already begun interrogating me."
"...The Lamp of Everlasting Light, Neither Dead nor Alive."
"This is a rare treasure of the Demonic Path. Do you