Chapter 188 - : The Nineteenth Elder of the Xuanyin Sect (1/2)

The Xuanyin Sect, was one of the five great clans on the planet Ziyun. It was just as famous as the Divine Light Sect.

However, the Xuanyin Sect was currently in turmoil.

“Today is my elder brother’s birthday… we two brothers have agreed that no matter what happens, everyone must return beforehand and celebrate our birthday together with us.

“In these last two hundred years, we have not missed even a year.”

February 21, Year 1232 of the Ziyun Era, late at night, an old man wearing a black robe, who was emaciated with aged features walked out of the courtyard. “If elder brother doesn’t return this time, that’ll mean that something definitely went wrong!”

This old man was called “Chi An,” the nineteenth elder of the Xuanyin Sect.

It was the same in the Xuanyin Sect as it was in the Divine Light Sect—only mid Primal Core adepts could become clan elders.

“Shortly before the new year… did Elder Brother notice that Zhong Ya acquired a female disciple named Chen Dandan?”

Having spent an entire evening until daybreak investigating, Chi An finally found a crucial clue from when his elder brother, Chi Ping, last left the Xuanyin Sect. The clue pointed toward the newly acquired female disciple of Zhong Ya, one of the two chief elders of the Xuanyin Sect.”

“Miss Dandan.”

Chi An immediately opened the door and searched for Chen Dandan. “Before leaving the Xuanyin Sect, my elder brother Chi Ping met with you… that time when he was set to depart, do you happen to know where it is that he went?”

“You mean Chi Ping?”

Chen Dandan knitted her brows. “Now that you mention it, a year ago when I saw him that time, I never did see him again after that… Nineteenth Elder, are you sure that after he met with me and left, that it was his last time leaving the sect? No one saw him return to the sect after that?”

“I investigated all night; I can confirm that he never returned to the sect after that time.”

Chi An’s voice sounded somewhat husky because of the gloomy tone in his voice. “Yesterday was our birthday, and for the last two hundred years, we have celebrated our birthdays together. That is the promise between us two brothers… Since the day we made that promise, this year is the first time he has failed to keep it.

“If he has broken our promise, there can only be two possibilities… either he has gotten stranded somewhere and has no way to get back or he has been killed!”

After saying this, Chi An’s face became increasingly sullen.

“I’ve come here looking for you, Miss Dandan, to ask you precisely… that time when he was set to depart, do you happen to know where it is that he went?” Chi An asked.

“That I do know.” Chen Dandan nodded her head. “When we were talking that time, we spoke of my birthplace, the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley. Afterwards, I mentioned my personal enemy from over there… and he said, he could go to the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley and help me settle the score with my foe.”

“So what you are saying, Miss Dandan… is that he went to your home country and has not been heard from since.”

Chi An’s eyes flashed.

He knew his elder brother, Chi Ping, better than anyone. Naturally, the only reason Chi Ping would go off on his own to the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley, was because he wanted to curry favor with the woman standing before him and get closer to the chief elder of the Xuanyin Sect, Zhong Ya.

From the start and ever since then, that elder brother of his had always been involved with unorthodox practices and shortcuts. Otherwise, there was no way his brother’s martial skills could be so inferior to his own.

They were twins, and their innate martial talents did not differ much.

However, he was already a mid Primal Core adept, while his brother Chi Ping, was still only an early Primal Core adept.

“Yes.” Chen Dandan nodded. “But in the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley, it’s impossible that there is anyone who can match him… the strongest person in the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley is that Head of Valley of the Medicine Masters, Su Mo, but even he is only a late Connate stage adept.”

“As for my personal enemy, Zhou Donghuang, he is also only a Connate stage adept. Although he does rely on the use of a sword sphere, a sword sphere poses no threat whatsoever to a Primal Core adept,” Chen Dandan said.

“Miss Dandan, please tell me the location of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley,” Chi An begged.

Although his brother most likely had gone out in order to help the woman before him, even if he had encountered some mishap, he could not blame the woman before him at all because it had been his elder brother who had taken the initiative to undertake the task and help her.

However, taking a step back and looking at it, even if it had not been a voluntary action on his brother’s part, but rather, it had been the woman who had forced his elder brother to go, he still would not dare accuse the woman before him.

The woman before him was a disciple under the Xuanyin Sect’s Golden Essence elder adepts, so her position within the Xuanyin Sect was high. There was no need to mention him, a mere mid Primal Core elder, when even those elders who were late Primal Core adepts were extremely courteous when they saw her.

“Very well.”

Chen Dandan nodded, and afterwards told Chi An, in a few words, the location to the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley.

After Chi An had left, Chen Dandan’s eyebrows raised as she thought, “I still don’t know whether it was on the way to the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley that something happened to Chi Ping, or if it was on his way back to the Xuanyin Sect that something happened… if it is the former, then he definitely did not make it in time to kill Zhou Donghuang or to snuff out the Valley Head.

“However, if it was the latter, then he should have already killed Zhou Donghuang and the Valley Head… if that’s the case, then he can still be considered to have died a worthy death.”

Che Dandan did not care the slightest about Chi Ping’s life.

What she was worried about was whether Zhou Donghuang and the Valley Head had been killed by Chi Ping or not.

…

Divine Light Sect.

In more than an entire year’s time, the people sent out by the head of the Divine Light Sect’s intelligence gathering, Eagle Eye, had all returned one after another, all except for Eagle Eye’s second in command, the Divine Light Sect’s tenth elder, Lin Hantian.