While rushing to the Ying bridge Rong Yuan thought about the whole situation. Clearly, his sect and the "White Lotus" sect weren't enemies, but in fact, they were in a close relationship as partners.

"So why would they attack his disciples? Or was there some conspiracy behind this attack? Are his disciples ok?". His mind was filled with these kinds of questions.

Also, the Sect Master of the "White Lotus" sect was his not best but a close friend. He even helped her to win the position of Sect Master at that time. No matter how much he thought about the reason he couldn't come up with at least one.

While thinking about all of these he remembered the information about Ying Bridge, one of the Seven World Mysteries. Ying Bridge was a very mysterious place obviously. It was very long and it was made of black stones. You couldn't make a scratch on it if you don't have very high cultivation because only then your body would have the power to do it.

For example, Rong Yuan could do it with his legendary Spirit Emperor cultivation level. But that was all, he could only make a scratch on it.

Ying Bridge's name origin was related to its stone color and nature.

There was white fog all over the place around the bridge. Ying Bridge was also a deadly place for even cultivators if not for being careful.

The reason is that if a cultivator stays even a little time on the bridge, they couldn't use their spirit power, they could only use their bodies to fight if necessary.

So it was the best place to assassinate or kill someone. You could kill a powerful cultivator there if you have the means.

According to legends about the Ying Bridge, this was all related to white fog on the bridge. Many cultivators believed that fog could seal their spirit power, but this was only a hypothesis. Nobody knew the truth about the fog or its mysterious power.

There was another point that was adding mystery to this bridge. The bridge was built on top of the Yang river which is another one of the Seven World Mysteries.

Yang river's water was in black color and it was extremely cold. Thus no sane person dared to enter the river. Legendary Spirit Emperor Stage cultivators couldn't do anything in it either. And this was another reason why Ying Bridge was deadly, if you are pushed off the bridge, then you are dead.

He asked his youngest disciple to bring pills and antidotes because you could use pills on Ying Bridge and antidotes may be required if his disciples are poisoned.

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But the requirements to use pills were utterly harsh, one pill could only last about 3 minutes and the pill's grade should be at least a fifth-grade perfect pill or a sixth-grade pill. Only grade 6 alchemists namely grandmaster alchemists could create these pills.

Luckily, his fiance Rouer was also a top sixth-grade grandmaster alchemist. So this time he didn't need to worry about the pills.

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After flying for hours he saw the Ying Bridge using his eyes strengthened by spirit power. This was a technique he himself invented and named "Spirit Emperor Eyes". This technique allowed him to see a 4-mile-long area clearly as long as he have enough spirit power.

When he was near the bridge, he stopped flying and started to search for Spirit supporting pills in his spirit artifact, a storage ring which is a grade 3 middle artifact, its capacity was a 30x30 meter cube. Despite that this was a rare artifact in his world.

He could only find 7 Spirit Supporting Pills that can support him for only about 20 minutes, but this should be enough for him until his fiancé and reinforcements came.

He started walking in the fog and after some time he heard many shouts and started to run in that direction.

After arriving at the location he saw his other two disciples who were barely holding their consciousness standing near the edge of the bridge. There were many dead bodies around them.

Their situation was many times worse than his third disciple, their bodies has many severe injuries and blood was replaced in places of tattered clothes. Clearly, they must have been fighting non-stop with multiple opponents.

He immediately run to them and gently said:

"Hey, Yuer, Naer. It's me, your master. Are you okay?"

He then fed them healing pills and one Spirit Supporting pill to each of them so they could heal at least a little faster.

"Ma-master is it you... Mas-ter…" – said his first and eldest disciple Yuer while slowly regaining her consciousness.

"I knew it! I knew the master would come." – said his other disciple Naer while groaning in pain.

"Stop talking and heal your injuries take these healing pills, it may help you ease the pain a little bit. And yes I came, of course, I would come even if it puts my life in danger."- replied Rong Yuan.

After hearing him they started to cry after one another.

"Master we disappointed you. We didn't do as you said. Master, we are fools. Please, please forgive us master.. sob-sob.."

"Yes master, we were wrong. Please..-sob-sob.. forgive us" – said his disciples while crying

"What happened? Why are you wrong? Tell me, explain the situation, why are you like this?" Yuan questioned them.

"Master, we didn't do as you said. We believed him... WaaH... sob.. sob.."

"Who did you believe?"

"We believed him. He wanted to meet all of us. And we believed him and came here. But… but.."

His disciples' eyes filled with sadness and regret.

"Who are they talking about" – he thought.

"Who is it?", he asked as he wanted to know who did this to his precious disciples and show them hell.

"He is .. he .." – while saying his name both of them lost consciousness.

{I think they are tired after all of these...}, thinking about it, he suddenly heard a voice.

"Of course it is ME!"

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