"The Great Professor, looks like you were unlucky this time. Binding Art #58: Grasping Toes Chasing Sparrows."
While Shizuku Kurogane took the critically wounded Kurogane Ikki away for treatment and the others gathered to track down The Great Professor and rescue Stella, Shen Fei quietly stepped aside and used a Binding Art to trace Stella. He could not easily track The Great Professor, but Stella was different. He clearly remembered her soul signature, after all, he had replicated her Device.
"Huh? He didn't flee the country directly. Does he have some secret base here?" Through Binding Art #58: Grasping Toes Chasing Sparrows, Shen Fei quickly determined The Great Professor's direction and location. To his surprise, The Great Professor had not left Japan. Shen Fei had assumed that after capturing Stella, he would board a warship or submarine and escape.
But that was good news for Shen Fei. Otherwise, he might not have been able to track him with a single Binding Art. Grasping Toes Chasing Sparrows had a limited tracking range.
Once he learned Stella's location, Shen Fei immediately set out. He did not notify Edelweiss and the others. The first reason was to rescue Stella faster. The second was, naturally, that he wanted The Great Professor's wealth.
If he notified Edelweiss, she would definitely tell the others. Then the Black Knight would surely join them, and it would be harder for Shen Fei to meddle. At the very least, The Great Professor's laboratory had to contain plenty of good things. If the Black Knight, or even Saikyo Nene, got involved, the laboratory would become the alliance's property.
"So it's down here? Pretty impressive." Shen Fei soon arrived at an abandoned mine in the mountains. Stella's soul signature was here. He then touched the ground with his finger and used