Chapter 198: The Agreed Day
Stepping onto the third floor was like entering a different world.
The noise and chaos of the lower levels vanished instantly, replaced by a hushed, sterile atmosphere. The floor plan was far more expansive than Jiang Chen had imagined, lined with row upon row of numbered doors—Room 301, Room 302, and so on.
He had assumed this would be the residential area, but it was clearly a dedicated workspace. The Water Spirit Root cultivators of the Rain Pavilion evidently believed in a strict separation of church and state—or rather, work and life.
Everyone present was either a Talisman Master or related to one.
Lin Yu and her sister, Lin Yan. One was in the late stages of Qi Condensation, the other in early Foundation Establishment.
Strictly speaking, neither had the qualifications to roam the third floor so freely. But in the cultivation world, nepotism was a power all its own. Their father was a Senior Talisman Master at the peak of Foundation Establishment, granting them unrestricted access.
It didn’t take long for Jiang Chen to spot the man in question.
Bai Xiaotian.
He appeared to be in his forties—a young man by cultivator standards, but possessing an air of gravitas that made him seem older. He wore robes of deep ink-black, the hem embroidered with rolling waves of silver thread. Beneath sharp, sweeping brows, his eyes held the cold, piercing intensity of distant stars.