For a moment, Elder Song felt a sense of pride swell within…
Elder Master Xun gave Elder Song a placid look, “Understood?”
Elder Song couldn’t help but nod.
Elder Master Xun then concluded decisively, “That settles it. Leave the letter here, I have other matters to attend to.”
Hearing this, Elder Song immediately bowed and said respectfully:
“Then I won’t disturb you any further, Elder Master.”
After leaving the letter behind, Elder Song took his leave.
Once Elder Song was gone, Elder Master Xun went back to immersing himself in studying the object on his desk.
It was a Compass.
Circular as the heavens and squared as the earth, with intersecting meridians and parallels, marked by celestial stems and earthly branches, full of profound and complex principles.
Elder Master Xun stared at the Compass, deep in deduction, but his brows only furrowed further, his expression growing more solemn.
After a long while, he sighed deeply in frustration, murmuring to himself:
“Our Taixu Gate’s divination methods… are indeed insufficient…”
“We can’t figure it out…”
A sharp glint flashed across Elder Master Xun’s cloudy eyes.
Lately, he had been preoccupied with a deep sense of concern as if Taixu Gate had been marked by a terrifying entity because of certain matters.
This affair was of great significance, affecting the Sect’s destiny.
No matter how much he pondered, plotted, and deduced over and over again, he could not disperse the fog of confusion nor discern the truth within.
Suddenly, he could only perceive that Taixu Gate appeared to be bound by layers of purple, decaying Karmic chains.
A pair of blood-red, terrifying eyes was watching Taixu Gate with covetous intent.
This crisis was lurking in the darkness.
There must certainly be someone targeting Taixu Gate, propelling a wicked conspiracy.
Yet on the surface, nothing seemed amiss.
Elder Master Xun frowned and then remembered something his senior brother had once said, giving rise to a sigh.
His senior brother was right; if it were the glory days of Taixu Gate, there would be no need to worry about these demons and spirits. Even with myriad Heavenly secrets, a thousand dangers of karma, and ten thousand threads of Evil Thoughts, they could all be severed by a single sword!