"Where had Xie Zhen gone these past few days?"
Deng Baiyi sat by the window, propping up her chin as she stared blankly at the bustling alley outside.
After setting up the formation at Little Barren Mountain to purge demons that night, Xie Zhen had "vanished into thin air." He had only warned everyone at the Deng Estate not to leave unless necessary.
That guy was always like this.
Mysterious and impossible to fathom.
If that foolish little girl had not still been left here, Deng Baiyi might even have thought that he had already left Carp Tide City.
Still, Xie Zhen had shown a little "conscience." Before leaving that night, he had left her some formation pattern incantations.
Deng Baiyi had not been idle these past few days. She reviewed the formation patterns of the "Nine Bright Phoenix Fire Formation" once more. It was not until talisman paper piled high before her that she realized three days had slipped by in a flash. Pushing open the paper window, she saw that all of Carp Tide City had dimmed beneath a vast mass of sinister dark clouds, as though they meant to blanket and crush the entire little city.
The streets and alleys had grown even livelier.
Countless visitors had been waiting for precisely this moment...
Many people streamed out of the city. The great tide was approaching, and even from several miles away, one could hear the waves churning.
Although Deng Baiyi had remained in secluded cultivation indoors these past few days, she had heard the discussions drifting in from the streets.
Some said this was a great tide that Carp Tide City had not seen in a hundred years.
If they missed it, they would regret it for the rest of their lives.
Deng Baiyi turned and glanced