It's so cold! Lanqin hugged her arms to her chest to keep out the chill before heading down the secluded path the old Taoist had told her about. By the time Lanqin reached Taizipo, the sun was already high in the sky; it must have been past dawn.

She arrived at the entrance of the palace at Taizipo, where she saw an old Taoist priest cleaning a large square platform. He saw Lanqin enter but did not stop her; instead, he continued cleaning.

"Old Taoist Master, is Second Master Zhou inside?" Lanqin asked directly.

"Where did you come from, little Taoist priest? What do you want with the Second Master?" the old Taoist priest asked.

"Master, I have urgent business with the Second Master. Please don't ask me where I'm from!" Lanqin said hurriedly.

Looking at Lanqin's delicate face and hearing her slightly feminine voice, the old Taoist priest immediately realized that she was not a man. He asked in surprise, "Why are you, a woman, dressed in Taoist robes and coming here so early in the morning? What are you doing here?"

Seeing that her identity had been discovered, Lanqin decided not to hide it anymore and said, "Old Taoist Master, please take me to see the Second Master. I really have something important to discuss with him." Lanqin said, then whispered, "It concerns a major matter concerning the Quanzhen Sect."

The old Taoist priest looked at Lanqin in surprise, but from her serious and earnest expression, he could tell that she was not lying!

"The Second Steward should be with the Third Steward right now. If you want to see the Second Steward, come back around noon," the old Taoist priest said.

"Old Taoist priest, do you still have breakfast here? I'm so hungry I can't walk anymore." Lanqin had forced herself to walk briskly along the path, but it still took her a long time to get here. Now, she felt so hungry that her stomach was practically sticking to her back.

"Come here!" the old Taoist priest said when he saw Lanqin say this. Then Lanqin followed the old Taoist priest all the way to the gatehouse of Taizipo. The old Taoist priest was actually the gatekeeper of Taizipo. He stuffed a steamed bun into Lanqin's hand and then took out some pickled vegetables.

After thanking her, Lanqin immediately picked up the steamed bun and started eating.

Before noon, the second steward indeed returned. He had just passed by the door when Lanqin called him back. It turned out that Lanqin had been waiting at the gatehouse for Zhou Xingchuan to return.

After bowing to Zhou Xingchuan, Lanqin said, "Second Master, may I speak with you in private? I have something important to discuss with you."

Zhou Xingchuan frowned as he looked at Lan Qin, somewhat puzzled, and said, "Who are you? Why are you a woman wearing my Taoist clothes and coming here to tell me you have important business?"

Lan Qin quickly said, "I am the lady you are looking for. Didn't the Daoist Master send someone to Daoist Zhou Tianhao to invite me up the mountain? Now that I'm here, won't the Daoist Master invite me in for a seat?"

Zhou Xingchuan was slightly stunned, not expecting Lan Qin to just walk right into his trap. They later sent out several groups of people to search for her, but still couldn't find her.

"You've got some nerve, coming right up to my door?" Zhou Xingchuan said.

“If there’s nothing unnecessary to say to the Taoist priest, I won’t walk into his trap,” Lanqin said sarcastically.

"It seems so. Then come in with me." Zhou Xingchuan looked like a middle-aged man in his fifties with a kind face. Just as the old man had said, he was kind and honest, but also very opinionated.

"Thank you, Daoist Master!" Lanqin bowed again.

After Lanqin followed Zhou Xingchuan into the inner room, he dismissed everyone, leaving only Lanqin and the two of them in his council hall, where they sat as host and guest.

"You just said you had something important to tell me. What is it?" Zhou Xingchuan asked.

"Manager, what I'm about to say might surprise you, but it will definitely be earth-shattering. Please don't get excited after hearing it," Lanqin warned them beforehand.

"Yes. Go ahead and speak," Zhou Xingchuan said.

So, Lanqin told him in detail how she had entered the underground prison of Wulongtai and what the old man had said.

Slap! Slap!

"What? You mean my master was switched? The one at Jin Ding isn't my master?" Zhou Xingchuan asked, his eyes wide.

"Yes, that sounds a bit funny, but if you listen to what I'm about to say, you won't think I'm talking nonsense," Lan Qin said.