The External Body returned to Holy Soul Village and slipped into Zhou Qing's acupoints.
"Qingzhu Zhu and Ning Rongrong... I didn't expect both of them to come to Nuoding Academy as well."
Zhou Qing pondered to himself.
Ning Rongrong was easy enough to explain. She must have run over here on her own, and disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect were surely waiting in secret. That old fox Ning Fengzhi couldn't possibly be unaware of it. Perhaps he had deliberately encouraged Ning Rongrong to come here and befriend them.
But Qingzhu Zhu's identity was troublesome. If she came to Nuoding Academy without joining up with Dai Mubai, it would likely draw the attention of the Star Luo Empire's upper ranks.
But—
It didn't matter!
To the Red Assembly, the Star Luo Empire would be an opponent—an enemy—in the future as well.
Besides, the Star Luo Empire was about to fall into chaos for a while...
After news spread among the major factions that Zhou Qing could ride clouds and travel through mist, carrying more than six hundred people across thousands of li from Gengxin City back to the outskirts of Holy Soul Village in less than the time it took to drink half a cup of tea, the higher-ups of both the Star Luo Empire and the Heaven Dou Empire slowed down their original plans.
Yet their stance toward the Red Assembly remained unchanged.
Other than commoners and ordinary Soul Masters, not a single ruler of the noble class was willing to accept the Red Assembly's ideology.
What was more, after Li Daniu's deed of forcing Nuoding City's new city lord, Li Ai, to compromise through a protest march spread far and wide, many people in the regions surrounding the Two Great Empires—who had once merely found the