Fang Yi arrived outside Daoxuan Peak.
Before he had even entered, he sensed an unfamiliar but vast presence emerging within Daoxuan Peak.
This had to be someone from the Immortal Sacred Whale Clan, and a Samsara Stage expert at that.
There was another presence, too, making Fang Yi raise an eyebrow. Such pure Power of Life and Death?
Could the Life and Death Ancestral Symbol have come as well?
Fang Yi flew into Daoxuan Peak and landed on the summit.
There, in front of the bamboo house, Daoxuan and Elder Qian were chatting with a middle-aged man dressed in blue robes. He had long azure hair, blue eyes, and a carefree, dashing bearing.
A little girl in a blue padded coat stood nearby.
The girl looked very young, but she was exceptionally adorable. Her features were as delicate as a porcelain doll's, and her hair was tied into two pigtails, making her look especially sweet and well-behaved.
At first glance, Fang Yi thought she looked like a younger Jiang Yinyin. The two were simply too alike.
Loli sisters.
Fang Yi hurriedly shook his head inwardly and drove away the strange thought beginning to take shape. Even with the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique at his command, he wouldn't dare play around like that!
"You're here."
Ying Xuanzi looked at Fang Yi. Mu Lan looked over as well, a divine blue light bursting from his eyes as though he wanted to see through Fang Yi, but all he saw was a sea of golden light.
Then his gaze met Fang Yi's, and his eyes held a smile.
"This junior is Fang Yi. Greetings, senior."
Fang Yi cupped his hands as he spoke, startling Mu Lingshan, who had been looking around. She hurried behind Mu Lan and clutched his robe tightly with her little hands.
"You truly are a young heaven's chosen."
Mu Lan smiled gently.
At first glance, he had known Fang Yi was no ordinary person.
There were very few people even he could not see through, and they were usually at the Death Profound Realm or even the Samsara Stage.
But Fang Yi was only at the humble Nirvana Realm.
"You flatter me, senior."
Fang Yi smiled. Seeing that Fang Yi had arrived, Elder Qian gave Mu Lan and Daoxuan a slight nod. "Then I shall take my leave."
Though he was considered part of the Dao Sect's foundation, there were some things even he was not entitled to know.
With that, Elder Qian vanished from where he stood.
Once Elder Qian had left, it was time to discuss the real business.
Mu Lan's expression remained gentle, but his tone grew much more serious. "How exactly did you learn our clan's secret, young friend?"
"Even the descendants of the other Eight Ancient Masters don't know about this."
Mu Lan stared intently at Fang Yi. Who could know how shocked he had been when he received the Dao Sect's message? At first, he had thought the Dao Sect messenger from the Eastern Xuan Region was making a baseless fuss.
The Dao Sect of the Eastern Xuan Region did have some reputation in the Chaotic Demon Sea, but not much.
After all, the Chaotic Demon Sea was simply too vast.
It was so vast that even the Yuan Sect would be, at most, a little known there.
In the eyes of the many factions in the Chaotic Demon Sea, only those with a Reincarnation Stage expert were major powers.
The other exception was a faction like the Flame God Hall. Though Mo Luo was at the Peak Samsara Stage, he wielded the Fire Ancestral Talisman.
Ordinary Samsara Stage experts were no match for him, so he was treated as a Reincarnation Stage expert as well.
So when the Dao Sect approached the Immortal Sacred Whale Clan, saying it had information about the person they had been seeking all along,
the Undying Holy Whale Clan had nearly thrown the messenger out.
A middling faction from the Eastern Xuan Region claimed to know about their affairs?
If the message had not finally reached the depths of the clan and come to Mu Lan's attention, that person would not have produced a trace of Qi in the end.
It was a trace of Qi that Ying Xuanzi had extracted from Jiang Yinyin, containing deeply concealed Power of Life and Death.
It also carried a presence that made him feel close to it.
If he had not been at the Samsara Stage, he probably would have had difficulty sensing it too. It was simply too well concealed.
Perhaps only someone who had thoroughly comprehended life and death and stepped into the Samsara Stage could sense even a trace of it, could sense this power.
Mu Lan had hurriedly sought out the Second Elder and the Grand Elder. After they confirmed it,
and compared it with the presence the Lord of Life and Death had once left in the Life Death Coffin,
they concluded that this Qi was definitely connected to their ancestor, the Lord of Life and Death.
He had then hurried to the Eastern Xuan Region with Mu Lingshan.
After arriving, he found that the Dao Sect was indeed extraordinary. He felt that even if he personally attacked the great formation laid outside, he might have difficulty breaking through it.
Its power was comparable to the Life Death Coffin that the girl Mu Lingshan wielded, and even more domineering.
He was even more surprised when he met Fang Yi.
He had seen many heaven's chosen in the Chaotic Demon Sea. Even Tang Xinlian, the foremost figure of the Flame God Hall's current generation, was nothing much in his eyes.
After all, potential was only potential. If Tang Xinlian ultimately failed to inherit Mo Luo's Fire Ancestral Talisman,
the Samsara Stage would be her peak.
But Fang Yi was different in his eyes. The fact that he could not see through Fang Yi was enough to show how special he was.
Fang Yi smiled. "That's a long story."
"I'm all ears."
Ying Xuanzi glanced at Fang Yi. Was he planning to reveal that Ying Huanhuan was the Ice Master's reincarnation too?
Could the Immortal Sacred Whale Clan be trusted?
After all, the Immortal Sacred Whales were considered part of the demon race, and relations between humans and demons were not very good.
But Fang Yi knew that when facing the Yimo, descendants of the Eight Ancient Masters such as the Immortal Sacred Whales, the Sea Giants, and the Kunpeng Clan would surely stand at the very front.
It was a duty branded into their bloodlines.
Fang Yi began with Ying Huanhuan being a reincarnator, then spoke of the Great Desolation Tablet, and finally of how he had discovered Jiang Yinyin's condition by a fortunate coincidence.
Afterward, he had tested Jiang Yinyin and found that the Power of Life and Death within her was incomparably pure.
Combined with her closeness to Ying Huanhuan and the Great Desolation Tablet's confirmation...
Mu Lan's gaze had been indifferent at first, but he froze when he heard that Ying Huanhuan was the Ice Master.
The Ice Master's reincarnation was actually here?!
If the other descendants of the Eight Ancient Masters learned of this, wouldn't they go mad?!
One had to know that all the descendants of the Eight Ancient Masters had ancestral instructions.
If they ever truly encountered the Ice Master's reincarnation, they were to protect her at all costs and help her grow.
The instructions said she was the last hope of putting an end to the Yimo.
He had thought that was already the biggest revelation, but then he heard that three Yimo True Kings were also suppressed beneath the Great Desolation Tablet.
Mu Lan's face was full of bewilderment. Three Yimo True Kings were suppressed there? He looked at Ying Xuanzi instinctively.
His expression was full of shock and admiration. Was the Dao Sect's master really so formidable that he wouldn't move his sect even with three Yimo True Kings suppressed beneath it?
Seeing Mu Lan's expression, Ying Xuanzi smiled bitterly to himself.
Even moving away would be no use.
Leaving aside the Yuan Sect eyeing them covetously, as long as Ying Huanhuan remained his daughter, he would eventually clash with the Yimo anyway.
Besides, the Great Desolation Tablet was still suppressing everything. As long as nothing went wrong, they should not make changes without reason; it only needed to keep working.
Nothing had gone wrong with the Dao Sect for so many years, and now that Fang Yi was here, trouble was even less likely.
And now, hadn't the Great Desolation Tablet even freed up a hand to protect the Dao Sect?
That would allow him to be much more at ease.
At the very least, he no longer needed to worry about a scheme to lure the tiger away from the mountain.