Li Chengxing's brows furrowed slightly, yet a faint sense of unease stirred within him.
The Division Head's tone had indeed differed from usual. Beneath those cool, detached words seemed to lurk a thread of deeply suppressed fury.
He could not help recalling the recent affairs within the Blackbird Division, trying to find what might have provoked the Division Head's displeasure.
"Forget it!"
Li Chengxing took a deep breath, suppressed his doubts, and strode swiftly toward the courtyard where Division Head Lu was in seclusion.
No matter what had angered the Division Head, he had to deliver the news to Old Lu as quickly as possible.
Earlier, Li Chengxing had inadvertently noticed that the Heaven and Earth Power barrier Lu Xuan had set up had long since vanished.
Did the dispersal of the Heaven and Earth Power not mean that Lu Xuan had finished his seclusion?
Before long, Li Chengxing quietly arrived outside Lu Xuan's courtyard.
Standing before the courtyard gates, Li Chengxing's gaze darkened slightly, but he did not knock.
Instead, he stood there silently waiting, while thoughts churned endlessly through his mind.
Could that rumor from Wentai Prefecture in the Eastern Region be true?
"If that rumor is true, then this is no small matter..." Li Chengxing muttered softly, cold light flickering in his eyes.
He had long heard the rumor from Wentai Prefecture in the Eastern Region, but had never taken it seriously before.
Yet the Division Head's voice transmission today, along with the anger faintly concealed in her tone—
And the fact that she had ordered him to find Old Lu immediately—proved that something major was about to happen.
One day later.
Inside the main room, Lu Xuan slowly rose to his feet, his aura completely drawn in.
Then Lu Xuan lifted his eyes slightly. His deep