"As for intelligence on the Demon Cloud Cult and Chief Chai..."
Su Xin got down to business. "The Demon Cloud Cult is easier enough to track; they have appeared often within Dingyuan Immortal City. But Chief Chai, ever since Junior Nephew Wei left thirty years ago... there has been no word of him. Whether in the Divine Fire Immortal Domain or Dingyuan Immortal City, no one has seen even the slightest trace of him."
"Could Chief Chai have left the Thunder Marsh Continent, just like you did?" Su Xin guessed.
"That is possible."
Wei Tu nodded, agreeing inwardly.
After provoking the Nine-Flame Lord and stealing the Divine Ape Grass, no matter how confident Chief Chai was, he must have considered leaving to lie low for a while.
By then, seeing that Wei Tu had no intention of speaking with her further, Su Xin sighed inwardly and took her leave, leaving the grand hall to Wei Tu as a place to rest during his stay in Azure Goat Valley.
Outside the hall, she stood alone upon the jade terrace. Her graceful figure seemed somewhat desolate, and a rare cloud of sorrow lingered between her willow-leaf brows.
Back then, for the sect's future, she had decided to give herself to Wei Tu. Though it had been voluntary, deep down, she had carried some dissatisfaction and grievance, feeling that she was marrying beneath herself.
Now, Wei Tu's hidden dragon had surged from the sea. He had entered the Sacred Emperor Domain and become a cultivator of the Human Ancestor Hall; his future was boundless...
The scraps of dissatisfaction in her heart had vanished like smoke.
But unfortunately, Wei Tu seemed far less interested in her than she was in him. Their conversations were mostly official matters, with scarcely any private affection between a