As Long Zhu's birthplace, Penglai Palace had always paid special attention to this female cultivator who had emerged from its ranks and joined the Dao Academy.
Long Zhu had not returned to Penglai Palace many times over the years, but on every previous visit, she had received the grandest and highest-standard welcome from the entire palace.
Yet shortly before the campaign to encircle the Demon Child, on her most recent visit, Long Zhu had not informed anyone in advance. Accompanied only by her Senior Brother, the Absolute Void Sword Immortal, she quietly returned to Penglai Palace.
Long Yuan told Yang Yuanhong that during that secret visit, Long Zhu had not even met with her clansmen or friends. She had only gone to pay respects to Ninth Abyss Venerable, the ancestor of their dragon-descendant lineage.
Very few people in Penglai Palace knew what had been discussed during that visit.
Only after Long Yuan had successfully completed his fifth dragon-body advancement and been summoned by several Venerables had he caught fragments of the news from their scattered remarks.
Yang Yuanhong learned from Long Yuan that Long Zhu had returned to Penglai Palace to meet Ninth Abyss Venerable in order to seek a single word from him.
As for why she had done so, what word she had obtained, and what significance it held, Long Yuan did not know.
After hearing this, Yang Yuanhong also felt that Long Zhu's return to Penglai Palace must have held some deeper meaning. Yet the specific details were beyond the reach of cultivators at their level.
After Long Zhu came Rui Qingxue, the person among the four cultivators on the Golden Roll's front page with whom Yang Yuanhong had the closest relationship.
He had once raced a thousand li through the Blood Demon Blessed Land to rescue