When Lin Yun stepped out of the hall, more than twenty people were already waiting outside. An Yun was among them.
“Greetings, Young Master!”
The moment the twenty-odd people saw Lin Yun and the Eldest Brother emerge, they all dropped to their knees and saluted him.
Eldest Brother Zou Dongsheng explained, “Young Master, our Wuji Heavenly Palace currently has just over a hundred members. The number is small, but every one of them is an elite. The weakest are at the Saint Realm, and we have more than ten in the Void Dao Realm. Most of them are scattered across the Ancestral Heart Realm at present, so you will not meet them for the time being.”
This headcount was indeed extremely low.
The major powers often numbered in the hundreds of thousands or millions, and some great clans even boasted billions of members.
After all, Wuji Heavenly Palace had already been destroyed. Now it could only hide in the shadows, unable to openly recruit, so naturally the numbers remained few.
Yet the fact that the lowest realm among them was Saint Realm, with more than ten Void Dao Realm experts, truly meant they were all powerhouses.
Having fewer people also had one advantage: each person could receive far greater resources.
“Please rise, everyone,” Lin Yun said to the crowd.
After the twenty-odd people stood up,
“Young Master, allow me to introduce them to you one by one. This is Zhong Chang, this is Qiu Qun…”
Zou Dongsheng introduced each person, and Lin Yun greeted them in turn.
“Young Master!”
“Young Master!”
They saluted Lin Yun one after another.
Soon, everyone had been introduced.
“Return to your duties,” Zou Dongsheng told the twenty-plus people before him.
“Yes.”
They acknowledged the order and dispersed.
“Zou Dongsheng, now that I have officially joined Wuji Heavenly Palace, can you finally tell me why those six great powers united against us back then?” Lin Yun looked at Zou Dongsheng with curiosity.
Lin Yun had always been puzzled. Those six powers came from different domains, so why had they joined forces to attack Wuji Heavenly Palace?
He had asked Zou Dongsheng this question before, but at that time the answer was that only a core member of Wuji Heavenly Palace could be told.
Surely now he qualified to know?
“Because all six of those powers serve the same being. Strictly speaking, however, it cannot be called a human.”
Zou Dongsheng spoke slowly. “Our Wuji Heavenly Palace was developing rapidly at the time, and our Palace Lord had discovered a great secret. That was why it moved against us.”
“What? There was actually… actually a stronger existence behind all six powers?” Lin Yun was stunned.
The six powers that destroyed Wuji Heavenly Palace had been among the very pinnacle of human forces in the Ancestral Land. Each one possessed Supreme Realm experts.
Yet there had been a hidden hand controlling them all?
Even the Supreme Realm experts of those six powers had obeyed its commands?
“If it can control six such powers… then what kind of being is it? Could it be… stronger than the Supreme Realm?” Shock filled Lin Yun’s eyes.
In the common understanding of the Ancestral Land, the Supreme Realm was the absolute peak.
Lin Yun had once believed the same.
Now it seemed the world of the Ancestral Land was far deeper and more complex than it appeared on the surface!
Lin Yun felt he had touched upon a far deeper layer of the Ancestral Land’s secrets.
“It is extremely mysterious. Even I do not know exactly what kind of existence it is. Certain unspeakable secrets were known only to our Palace Lord. Unfortunately… the Palace Lord has already fallen,” Zou Dongsheng said.
Lin Yun could not help swallowing hard.
The situation in the Ancestral Land had always been profoundly complicated.
Now it appeared far more than he had ever imagined!
What secret had the Palace Lord of Wuji Heavenly Palace discovered that caused that “it” in Zou Dongsheng’s words to strike against them down?
“After Wuji Heavenly Palace was destroyed, those secrets were temporarily sealed away. But I understand that if anyone ever touches upon this secret again, they will fall into tremendous danger!” Zou Dongsheng’s expression was complex.
Lin Yun exclaimed in shock, “You say only the Palace Lord knew what that being is, and only the Palace Lord knew the secret behind it. Now that the Palace Lord has fallen, has that secret not been buried forever?”
“When we fled back then, the Palace Lord left behind two wooden boxes. One of them contains that secret, along with some treasures. According to the Palace Lord’s instructions, the person who can activate the Seed of the Origin Tree, and who then joins Wuji Heavenly Palace, may receive the first wooden box. As for the second wooden box, it can only be obtained and opened after reaching the Supreme Realm,” Zou Dongsheng explained.
