Yunxi's words immediately drew everyone's attention, and all of them lowered their eyes in thought.
Zhou Langchen turned to his junior brother and asked:
"Junior Brother Bai, do you remember the exact time when you sent out the distress message?"
Junior Brother Bai was the Famous Sword Sect disciple who had described what happened earlier. After thinking for a moment, he replied:
"It was the midnight hour, from eleven at night to one in the morning. That was precisely when this Empty City was being crushed. I thought the spatial disorder might offer a chance, so I tried using my Identity Jade Token to send three distress messages. I never expected one of them to actually get through."
Zhou Langchen nodded in understanding. That was also why his Identity Jade Token showed that the location where the distress message had been received was the City Lord's Mansion.
Zijing smoothed her hair and said:
"After Fellow Daoist Bai successfully sent out the distress message, we also tried searching for a way out at that hour, but we still found nothing."
As cultivators themselves, they had noticed the same flaws Zhou Langchen had seen.
Yunxi cleared her throat again before speaking:
"What I mean is a specific day. Do you remember? Before we were teleported here, the cultivators and shopkeepers in the city all said that two days later, True Person Li Cangyuan, the City Lord's Mansion's successor, would be holding a Dao Companion Ceremony?"
After hearing Yunxi's words, the cultivators trapped here pondered for a while with lowered eyes before someone responded:
"We hadn't heard about it before being sent here."
Others replied:
"I did hear about it, but I was in a hurry and had no intention of joining the excitement."
"I heard about it too, and I even asked