Chapter 288: One Mirror, One Fruit Of Eternal Life
A short while later, Li Fan buried Manager Song’s body as well. He then turned his thoughts to the information about the Xuantian Sect gleaned from the man’s final words.
More than two hundred years ago, when Song Hesong had first joined the Purple Firmament Sect, he had been little more than a child.
That year coincided with the sect’s centennial grand celebration, an event meant to be filled with harmony and joyous festivity for the entire organization. Yet no one could have foreseen the arrival of an uninvited guest.
This visitor’s status was so exalted that even the Purple Firmament Sect Leader was compelled to receive him in person.
The Ten Immortal Dao Sects had dispatched an Inspector General.
The Inspector showed little regard for etiquette. He bluntly declared that intelligence had reached the Ten Immortal Dao Sects, indicating a wanted fugitive was hiding within the Purple Firmament Sect, and that a comprehensive search would be conducted.
Though the sect leader was deeply humiliated, faced with an Inspector acting in the name of the Ten Immortal Dao Sects’ collective authority, the Purple Firmament Sect had no choice but to comply.
At the time, no one knew the fugitive’s identity. Nevertheless, the search was carried out with ruthless thoroughness. Every disciple of the Purple Firmament Sect was interrogated one by one.
Even Song Hesong, newly inducted and serving only as a menial laborer, was not spared.
Song Hesong never learned the precise outcome of the investigation. However, after the Inspector departed, rumors began to spread within the sect: a hereditary disciple had vanished without a trace.
Many suspected that this missing hereditary disciple was the very fugitive the Inspector had sought.
Although the sect swiftly imposed strict rules forbidding such speculation, paper could not wrap fire.