"Those guys have been inside for a long time already."
Outside the palace, in a hidden corner, Huiye Qianfeng and his servant Chu Xin came to a stop.
Witch, Miss Lan, and the other girls had all been carried into the palace in carriages, but no news had come out even now. Huiye Qianfeng was secretly growing rather anxious.
"You wait here. I'll go in and take a look." He decided not to wait any longer. "Remember, don't expose yourself."
"Master, be car—"
Before Chu Xin could react, Huiye Qianfeng had already shot forward and silently vaulted over the palace wall.
"...ful."
Perhaps because the grand ceremony was approaching, there were very few people visible inside the palace. Along the way, Huiye Qianfeng used Divine Sense to explore cautiously, yet he encountered only three people.
One appeared to be a guard, while the other two were maids.
Because he did not know the palace's depths, Huiye Qianfeng did not dare spread his Divine Sense too conspicuously, so his exploration proceeded rather slowly.
"Carriages?"
Before long, Huiye Qianfeng still discovered the carriages that had carried the girls into the palace. They had been neatly arranged before a tower.
After pondering briefly, Huiye Qianfeng approached the tower. Only when he drew near did he discover that the tower had no entrance at all. The entire structure was seamless, like a pillar. Frowning, he sent his Divine Sense inside, only to find that it could not penetrate the tower's walls.
Just then, a group of Feather Clan warriors flew over the top of the tower. Their eyes swept across the ground, and they moved hurriedly, as though searching for something.
Huiye Qianfeng sensed danger and hid beneath a carriage well in advance. Only after the Feather Clan warriors had left did he