Listening to his account, everyone only felt it was utterly beyond belief.
Even in those collections of strange tales and legends, such a thing is rarely heard of.
Wang Daoxuan stroked his beard thoughtfully and said, "How did you persuade Zhou Yinyao?"
"Who is Zhou Yinyao?" The man looked completely dumbfounded.
Wang Daoxuan said, "He has a nickname, 'Green Frost Stone Boiling Old Man'!"
"Zhou Yinyao" was the first piece of intelligence they had obtained, a legendary immortal recorded in the Taiping Guangji and Immortal Legends and Miscellaneous, adept at the Taiyin Refining Technique, who had faked death and been reborn several times; Li Yan suspected he was an Earth Immortal yin criminal.
"Oh, that old guy…"
The man hurriedly nodded. "That old man ignored us at first, but before we set out, Her Ladyship bestowed a letter. After he read it, his face changed on the spot. He told us the location and then left in a hurry."
"What was written in the letter?"
