Looking at Bai Yulong's awkward smile, Zhou Xingdou exhaled a breath of fresh air, a hint of reminiscence in his eyes, and asked:
"After I left, did you still keep in touch with Wan Tianzhou and Dou Wanjun?"
Bai Yulong's face darkened, and he shook his head, saying:
"Without you, Boss, the forces behind us would never allow the three of us to have much contact, so we've basically had very little contact with each other."
Leaving aside the Battle of Wan Jun in the Pantheon, the Yin-Yang Cave behind Bai Yulong and the Universal Holy Land behind Wan Tianzhou, these two immortal forces have been fighting for tens of thousands of years and are almost sworn enemies.
Without Zhou Xingdou's mediation, how could Yin Yang Cave Heaven and the Universal Holy Land possibly feel at ease with their own inheritors contacting each other's inheritors?
Putting aside the dangers involved, the deep-rooted feud between the two sides would not allow it.
Zhou Xingdou had anticipated this outcome, so he could only sigh and ask again:
"How are they doing now?"
"After you left the Tai Shi Dao Domain and joined the Xuan Tian Dao Sect, the Myriad Gods Palace immediately imprisoned Dou Wanjun in the Myriad Gods Mystic Realm for cultivation, and he has not emerged since. As for Wan Tianzhou..."
When Wan Tianzhou was mentioned, Bai Yulong frowned, paused, and then continued:
“We used to meet secretly occasionally and communicate via voice, but two years ago he suddenly became a different person.”
Upon hearing this, Zhou Xingdou's eyes narrowed slightly:
"You've become a different person? What do you mean?"
Bai Yulong, with a look of reminiscence, slowly said:
"That was the last time he asked to meet me, but when I saw him, he looked at me with a very unfamiliar gaze."
His words revealed a lack of respect for you, Boss. I initially thought he had found out about you and harbored resentment towards you…
At this moment, Bai Yulong secretly glanced at Zhou Xingdou, and seeing that Zhou Xingdou was not angry, he continued:
"But during that meeting, he kept trying to extract the secrets of the Yin-Yang Cave from me. Moreover, he did not come alone; he had more than a dozen Saint Realm experts hidden behind him, but for some reason, they did not make a move."
"And... he called me Jade Dragon back then, not White Fool."
When talking about the dozen or so Saint Realm experts, Bai Yulong remained expressionless, but when he mentioned Wan Tianzhou's change in addressing him, his expression became extremely solemn.
Upon hearing this, Zhou Xingdou was immediately startled!
Wan Tianzhou was the first of the three to acknowledge Zhou Xingdou as his leader, and Zhou Xingdou knew him quite well.
Among the four, Wan Tianzhou values this friendship the most and is the most loyal and eccentric young man. He just has a sharp tongue and always likes to criticize Bai Yulong.
The two sides had a long-standing feud, and Bai Yulong and Wan Tianzhou initially disliked each other, so they often clashed.
But the more the teenagers argued, the deeper their feelings became once they made up. So even though Wan Tianzhou and Bai Yulong were from opposing forces, they were actually the ones with the best relationship among the four.
Wan Tianzhou was a little older than Bai Yulong and took good care of him, but he never let Bai Yulong off easy with his words. He often called Bai Yulong a fool and mocked him.
Moreover, Wan Tianzhou cultivates the expansive and unrestrained Universal Day Heaven Scripture, and is an upright and honest person. Whether considering his character or his friendship with Bai Yulong, he would never do anything to extract the secrets of the Yin Yang Cave Heaven from Bai Yulong.
It's even more impossible that he would bring along a dozen or so Saint Realm experts hidden in the shadows to meet with Bai Yulong in private.
His actions were indeed unlike those of Wan Tianzhou.
Zhou Xingdou also frowned and asked Bai Yulong:
"Is it possible that someone transformed into his appearance?"
Bai Yulong shook his head and said decisively:
“Impossible. We were worried about this situation after you left, so we each left two strands of primordial energy and gave them to the other two. The primordial energy that day was not wrong.”
Zhou Xingdou stroked his chin and said in a deep voice:
"But as an immortal power, the Holy Land of the Universe cannot fail to notice that its own holy son has been possessed. Moreover, with the Universe Day Heaven Scripture that Wan Tianzhou cultivates, it would not be an easy task for even a remnant soul supreme to possess him."
Bai Yulong shrugged helplessly and said:
"That's why I don't understand. Moreover, we met once a month before our last meeting, and there was nothing unusual about it. Old Wan even lent me five million top-grade spirit stones."
Zhou Xingdou sighed softly and patted Bai Yulong on the shoulder:
"Perhaps people will change in the end."
Bai Yulong smiled and said:
"That's good, then I won't have to pay back the spirit stones I owe him."
However, a hint of sadness still lingered in those black and white eyes. As inheritors of an immortal force, they rarely had true friends.
Whether it's Zhou Xingdou or Dou Wanjun, each one is incredibly precious to Bai Yulong, let alone Wan Tianzhou, with whom he has the best relationship.
Zhou Xingdou's lips curled into a slight smile, then he patted Bai Yulong on the shoulder and said:
"Alright, when I have some free time, I'll go to the Universal Holy Land to see Wan Tianzhou and see if he has really changed."
Bai Yulong nodded, but little did he know that Zhou Xingdou's heart sank at that moment.
Zhou Xingdou's thinking is different from ordinary people. In his view, this situation is easy to associate with the protagonist tropes in novels from his previous life.
Such a dramatic change in a person in a short period of time would inevitably arouse suspicion in Zhou Xingdou, who is already sensitive to those with good fortune.
But people's hearts are not what they used to be. Even Zhou Xingdou could not give Bai Yulong a definitive conclusion. Without seeing it for himself, he could not be sure about Wan Tianzhou's situation.
Perhaps people eventually change, and Wan Tianzhou eventually forgot the friendship of his youth and became the ruthless heir to the immortal power.
This reminded Zhou Xingdou of his previous life, where Bai Yulong died at the hands of Wan Tianzhou. When he first heard the news, he couldn't believe it.
Wan Tianzhou's change was indeed too strange. After he took Luo Hanyi back to the Zhou family and met his grandfather, he would definitely go to the Universal Holy Land to see for himself why his first disciple had changed so much.
However, no matter what, Zhou Xingdou will not let Wan Tianzhou off easily.
In his previous life, Wan Tianzhou's killing of Bai Yulong not only sparked a deadly battle between two immortal forces in the Tai Shi Dao Domain.
This shattered the balance maintained by the Zhou family, making the already chaotic Tai Shi Dao Domain even more chaotic.
In Zhou Xingdou's eyes, killing Bai Yulong was an unforgivable crime.
Even if Wan Tianzhou, Bai Yulong, and Dou Wanjun forget each other in the martial world and lose all contact, it is understandable that they fight for their own power. After all, Zhou Xingdou cannot control everyone's thoughts.
However, turning against each other and using the friendship built with Zhou Xingdou in the past to kill Bai Yulong shows that they didn't take Zhou Xingdou seriously.
His return to the Tai Shi Dao Domain was not only to visit the old man, but also to make the world understand.
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