War was not a battle for one person alone. Although I was burning with impatience, I still took the Rift-Splitting Flood Dragon and traveled through space toward a possible destination of the Heaven Unity Path. After all, while we were rushing to their rescue, how could the enemy not be sending reinforcements as well?
Along the way, we contacted the liaison points of the Southern Immortal Pavilion and the Soaring Cloud Sword Manor again and again. Most of what we received, however, was silence. We had no idea whether this was a lingering consequence of the Cangyun Sect previously having brought Xue Shuqi into the Eastern Sea Jie Sect, or whether the two sects had already retreated somewhere even farther away.
Only after another long stretch of several days did we manage to contact an elder of the Soaring Cloud Sword Manor for the first time, and even that had taken countless twists and turns.
The other party soon arranged to discuss the Cangyun Sect's return with Jiang Xian, the acting head of the Soaring Cloud Sword Manor. They would also have the Heaven Unity Path send troops to reinforce us. This made us extremely happy.
However, two days later, the news vanished without a trace. It was as though we had traveled westward from the central axis of the southern territories, walking through a vast forest sea devoid of all human presence.
Only when we were already nearing the destination where the Heaven Unity Path might have gone, according to the landmarks and reference points, did the communications network show a slight improvement. We heard that the Soaring Cloud Sword Manor and the Southern Immortal Pavilion had discussed the Cangyun Sect's return and verified the relevant information. They had essentially acknowledged the Cangyun Sect's return to the southern territories.