That night Li Wei returned to the skeleton in the forest.
He searched the area again.
This time he discovered something hidden beneath the bones.
A broken jade token.
On it was engraved the symbol of the Heavenly Cloud Sect.
Li Wei's eyes widened.
The dead cultivator whose memories he absorbed…
Had once belonged to the very sect that rejected him.
And the final memory he saw before the cultivator died was not battle.
It was execution.
Executed by his own sect.
Li Wei looked toward the distant mountain peaks where the sect stood.
His expression slowly changed.
If the sect had killed this cultivator…
Then perhaps the Forbidden Path contained secrets they wanted to bury.
And Li Wei had just uncovered the first one.