Splash.
Rain poured down in sheets.
The sea churned with towering waves.
Bolts of lightning streaked across the sky.
On a desolate beach at the edge of Haizhou in Great Yue.
A figure in black robes slowly emerged from the seawater.
The downpour shrouded him, yet it could not wet his robes in the slightest, as though some strange force field had sealed the rain away.
The figure slowly advanced, crossing the beach and arriving beside a reef.
Crack.
Another bolt of blue lightning lit up the entire sky.
After the flash vanished, the black-robed figure was already gone from beside the reef.
Before long, several Moon Veil surveillance personnel hurried through the rain to the reef and carefully inspected the traces.
"Someone was here!" one of them said quietly. "Not a True Beast."
"This lingering True Energy aura!" Another person held an exquisite black box. Inside it was a complicated compass-like instrument that slowly rotated.
The countless characters and patterns engraved upon it seemed like insects, linked together as they wriggled and turned.
"We must report this immediately!" the man said gravely.
"No. How could an expert possessing True Energy at this level reveal his aura so easily?" A strange look suddenly appeared on his face.
"Could it be bait!?" the others murmured.
Unease filled their hearts, and for a moment, they could not make up their minds.
In the end, the person leading the group directly reported the intelligence upward and left the higher-ups to decide how to handle it.
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"Mother, Father has not returned home for years. I wonder where he is now, and what he is doing?"
Farhope · Xuanmiao Sect · Wei Mansion.
Wei An watched the storm-tossed weather outside, concern rising in his heart.
Beyond Wei Mansion, the entire Xuanmiao Sect