Bright Moon City was home to a sprawling manor covering a vast area, with pavilions, towers, waterside terraces, and covered walkways.
Yu Weiwei, Lin Yuesen, and Chen Yao sat inside a green bamboo pavilion, discussing something. Yu Weiwei's face was pale, and she looked as if she had suffered a severe loss of vitality.
When the Chaos Beasts attacked Bright Moon City, the cultivators inside had not had time to flee before the Chaos Beasts stormed into the city. They slaughtered a group of immortals and captured the Golden Immortal cultivators. Not one survivor remained.
Yu Weiwei had defected to the Chaos Beasts, who had released her and sent her back. All the cultivators captured alongside her had been sent to sacrifice to the Ten Directions Mother-Child Tower. With no witnesses, outsiders had no idea that Yu Weiwei had been captured by the Chaos Beasts.
Yu Weiwei had not been missing for long. When the Cao Family sent people to investigate, she easily fooled them and passed the inspection.
It was not that the Cao Family had been careless. First, the Chaos Beast Tide had caused many cities to fall, and many immortals had gone missing. Being missing did not necessarily mean they had been captured by the Chaos Beasts, so the inspections could not be too strict. Second, when the Chaos Beast Tide erupted, some immortals had not been in the cities and had luckily escaped the disaster.
Three Chaos Beast Tides had erupted within fifty thousand years, each larger than the last. The Beast Spirit Sect, Bright Moon Alliance, Lin Family, and Azure Cloud Palace had all suffered severe losses. They were now relying entirely on Yu Weiwei to hold on. Together, they had managed to defend one Profound City. Without Yu Weiwei, the four great forces would