Published: February 25, 2025
As Tan Yun soared through the skies, he remembered Fang Zhiqing's voice saying, “Brother, I have something to discuss with you and Sister Shen. Are you available?”
“I’m available,” Tan Yun responded via telepathy. He then summoned the golden dragon spirit lion, which had already reached the seventh-grade adulthood as a royal beast, to transport himself and the others as they flew.
“Su Bing, Little Qing has something to say to us. Let’s go see her,” Tan Yun said, taking Shen Subing's delicate hand as they walked towards the Pavilion of Ascending to the Heavens. Just then, Zhen Ji suddenly spoke up, “Brother, I also have something to discuss with you.”
“Then let’s go in together,” Tan Yun smiled and entered the Pavilion with the two women, stepping into the resting hall of Fang Zhiqing.
Fang Zhiqing looked just as she did when Tan Yun first met her. She was tall, wearing a flowing blue gown that beautifully accentuated her curvaceous figure.
Her face was still covered by a black veil, concealing her features.
Tan Yun knew that Fang Zhiqing's appearance had been ruined by the soul snatching divine hound, and she did not wish to show her true face.
Tan Yun was even more aware that if he wanted to help Fang Zhiqing restore her appearance, he would only be able to do so by capturing the soul snatching divine hound and using its essence to heal her.
There was no other way.
“Little Qing, what’s wrong?” Tan Yun stepped forward, standing face to face with the tall Fang Zhiqing.
Fang Zhiqing looked at Tan Yun and Shen Subing, and in an instant, her beautiful eyes were filled with tears. “Brother, Sister, I know we are about to leave this abandoned land.”
“I’m very happy, but I’m also very worried. After all these years, are my parents still alive?”
“Back when the soul snatching divine hound threatened me with my parents' lives, it has been a long time since I escaped with my remnant soul and reincarnated. I’m really afraid that something has happened to my parents.”
Tears streamed down Fang Zhiqing's face, “Brother, I’m so scared. I’m really scared.”
“Foolish girl, your parents have good fortune and will surely be okay. Don’t think too much,” Tan Yun comforted as he embraced Fang Zhiqing, “Once we leave this abandoned land, our first task will be to find out what happened to your parents.”
“Little Qing, didn’t you have any trusted allies when your remnant soul fled from the Nine Heavens Immortal Manor?”
Fang Zhiqing choked back her sobs, “At that time, I contacted the old steward of the Nine Heavens Immortal Manor, asking him to find a way to save my parents.”
“However, he was too weak and wasn’t a match for the soul snatching divine hound.”
Upon hearing this, Tan Yun seemed to recall something, releasing Fang Zhiqing as he said, “I have imprisoned the chief overseer's imperial soul and imperial fetus on the forty-eighth floor. Let’s ask him; perhaps he knows something.”
In the next moment, Tan Yun, Su Bing, Zhen Ji, and Zhiqing disappeared and reappeared in the Forty-Eighth Floor of the Pavilion of Ascending to the Heavens.
Inside the hall, a ball of celestial power imprisoned the chief overseer's imperial fetus and imperial soul.
Tan Yun activated his primordial divine eye and controlled the chief overseer’s fetus and soul, asking, “From now on, answer all of Fang Zhiqing’s questions truthfully.”
Fang Zhiqing clenched her fists, feeling anxious, “I want to ask you, when Fang Zhiqing was in charge of the Primordial Chaos Nine Heavens Immortal Realm, was the old steward of the Nine Heavens Immortal Manor, Dong Yong, still alive?”
The chief overseer's imperial soul and imperial fetus furrowed their brows, as if trying hard to remember something.
After a moment, they replied, “I remember now. It is said that Steward Dong was expelled from the Nine Heavens Immortal Manor. As for other matters, I do not know.”
“Where did he go?” Fang Zhiqing pressed.
“I don’t know.”