Bai what? Is he from the Bai family? The Celestial Frost Sect’s Bai family in the Tianyuan Megaverse?
Lu Yin’s brow furrowed. His intuition said that the secret that Feng Bo had tried to share was truly important. However, if it was about a connection between Yong Heng and the Celestial Frost Sect, then how important could it possibly be? The Bai family’s patriarch had already died at the Immemorial Citadel, and Bai Xian’er had also died, eliminating any ties to the Bai family. What kind of earth-shattering secret could there still be?
Even if Yong Heng really was a member of the Bai family, even if speculation was taken to the extreme and the Bai Mu who had died at the Immemorial Citadel had been a fake and Yong Heng was the real Bai Mu, so what? How would that affect Lu Yin? Could that information change anything about the current situation in the various megaverses? Not at all.
Not even the entire Tianyuan Megaverse could influence things very much, let alone the Bai family alone.
In that case, did “Bai” even refer to a surname?
Images from the past flickered through Lu Yin’s mind as he tried to find some clue. Unfortunately, he could find nothing.
Ah! Jiu Xian.
Lu Yin passed back through the Skyward Gate and took out the spirit cloudstone that he had used in the Spirit Nidus and called Jiu Xian.
Time passed, but he received no response.
It was probably because the woman had returned to the Nine Odysseys Megaverse and thus no longer needed a spirit cloudstone. Lu Yin took out his communication device and called Qing Yun.
He had met the young woman on more than one occasion while traveling with the Seventh Night Pillar, and they had exchanged contact information at that time.
In the Frightened Sparrow Terrace, Qing Yun stared at the image of Lu Yin that appeared before her. “Mr. Lu, what do you need?”
Standing behind her, Granny Yin was extremely nervous, and she stared intently at the image. That brat! He really did manage to get the young lady’s information. He can’t be allowed to meet her alone.
Lu Yin replied, “I want to speak with Jiu Xian.”
Qing Yun was caught off guard, and she turned to look at Granny Yin.
The old woman stepped closer. “Jiu Xian? What do you want with Jiu Xian?”
Lu Yin said, “We met in the Spirit Nidus, and I have a question for her.”
Granny Yin wanted to refuse, but after giving the matter a bit of thought, agreed to Lu Yin’s request. No matter how wary she was of the man, his strength was still terrifying. It was even possible that he might eventually become an Immortal. Even if he never broke through to that realm, he was already stronger than anyone in the Nine Odysseys Megaverse, aside from the Greater Sancti. It would be best not to offend him unnecessarily, so long as the young lady was not involved, of course.
After receiving Jiu Xian’s contact information, Lu Yin ended the call and immediately reached out to Jiu Xian.
It did not take long for the woman’s image to appear on the display.
“Mr. Lu, you need something from me?”
“I have a question for you,” Lu Yin replied.
Jiu Xian shook her head. “I have no questions to trade with you, Mr. Lu.”
Lu Yin looked past the woman in the image. “Are you in the North Domain?”
“How did you know?”
“I can tell. The Mother Tree is behind you, and the Rift of Suffering is in front of you. You left the East Domain... because of Lan?”
Jiu Xian sipped her wine. “You mentioned that both Lan and Feng Bo serve Yong Heng, so naturally, I needed to go to Skyward Gate. I’ve heard she’s leading those Spirit Nidus cultivators.”
Lu Yin shrugged. “In that case, you’re too late. She’s already dead.”
Jiu Xian’s expression changed, and her eyes locked onto Lu Yin. “You killed her?”
“I need to resolve the trouble in the Spirit Nidus. Since I already knew that she was scheming something behind the scenes, of course I couldn’t let her go.”
Jiu Xian’s expression grew solemn.
“Feng Bo is also dead.”
Jiu Xian was startled by that revelation, and her gaze returned to Lu Yin. “You also killed Feng Bo?”
Lu Yin shook his head. “I didn’t kill him. He was only alive because he was resurrected by Eternal Decree, so he was probably killed by Yong Heng. I still had questions for him, which is why I called you.”
Jiu Xian clenched a fist, her eyes flickering with a terrifying amount of killing intent. She took another swig of her wine, and her face flushed red.
A long time later, she tossed the gourd of wine aside. “If Yong Heng could resurrect him once, he can do it twice, right?”
She looked at Lu Yin hopefully.
He thought for a moment and then nodded. “It’s possible.”
Feng Bo was Jiu Xian’s greatest enemy. She had gone to the Spirit Nidus just to find him. She was a Dukkhan, and it seemed possible that her Dukkha was actually Feng Bo himself.
If the man died but was not killed by Jiu Xian herself, she might suffer a terrible blow.
Lu Yin did not deny Jiu Xian hope, as it gave her motivation to continue forward.
“What do you want to ask me?” Jiu Xian plopped herself down on the ground.
Lu Yin asked, “What caused the grudge that you have against Feng Bo? How much do you know about him?”
Jiu Xian grew puzzled. “My grudge with Feng Bo... What’s it to you? It has nothing to do with Yong Heng either.”
“I just want to know.”
Jiu Xian barked a laugh. “Fine, if you want to know, I’ll tell you...”
Shortly after that, Lu Yin put his communication device away. He still had not found any clues.
The matter that had sparked Jiu Xian’s hatred of Feng Bo was very simple: he had annihilated her entire family.
Feng Bo had once been a guest of Jiu Xian’s family. For unknown reasons, he had wiped out her entire clan while she had coincidentally been away traveling. She had only barely escaped her family’s massacre. At that time, Feng Bo had been far stronger than Jiu Xian.
Later, Yong Heng had taken Feng Bo to the Tianyuan Megaverse, where the man’s cultivation had only slowly improved. Jiu Xian, on the other hand, had been driven by her hatred and had cultivated rapidly in the Nine Odysseys Megaverse. Not only had she become an Ortuser, but she had even entered Dukkha.