The young man in crimson fitted robes had barely sat down when Li Yan first asked whether they had uncovered the reason they had been abandoned, and he could not help feeling moved.
Li Yan must have come with some matter to attend to. He could have stated his request outright. That old Daoist's cultivation was earth-shaking, and even their own patriarch would not dare offend him.
Li Yan had noticed that whenever the young man in crimson fitted robes mentioned the words "patriarch," an almost imperceptible change appeared on his face. With Li Yan's keen mind, he had guessed the reason after only a few turns of thought.
Just as Meng Zhiyuan had told the young man and the others, their actual ages and the order of their bloodline inheritance far surpassed those of the current members of the Dark Spirit Demon Bat clan.
That even included the "patriarch" they spoke of, Meng Shangmo. Though this man was already a great cultivator at the late Nascent Soul stage, his true age was unknown how many generations younger than Meng Zhiyuan and the others.
Yet his cultivation was indeed far greater than Meng Zhiyuan's and theirs. Whenever the young man in crimson fitted robes addressed him as "patriarch," he would inevitably feel somewhat awkward inside.
"That 'Chencang Path' was clearly on the seabed. Why was it now said to be in the 'Demon-Swallowing Abyss'?"
"We found that strange as well. Later, Patriarch suspected that perhaps Venerable Duanmu and the others had used some divine ability to move the Chencang Path before they left.
"But there is a problem. The location of a teleportation array node was marked there, so it should have been impossible to move it. There is simply no explanation for that.
"Yet why were we no longer