The area below was blanketed in golden clouds, and the ground was covered in black poisonous water. The hundred corpses carrying the dragon staff had stopped at the city gate and no longer came in, turning the entire plaza into a restricted zone.
I could not find Senior Brother from afar, so I immediately used Shrinking Earth and returned. I sent Xijun, Song Wanyi, and Liu Xiaomiao, who were skilled at flying, to scout the area ahead.
Unfortunately, after circling around for a while, they soon returned and all said they had found nothing.
The entire restricted zone had been destroyed, and many corpse creatures had suffered as a result, but there was no sign of Senior Brother. I specifically had them watch for things like dried bones. To my relief, they had found none.
That meant Lin Zhengyi, Wang Luoying, and Li Jianchen had not been swept away by the poisonous water. They had probably all escaped from another location.
Perhaps Senior Brother had escaped as well?
Daring not to be careless, I searched again for a while. Quite a bit of golden sand struck me, and poisonous water even burst and splashed onto my clothes, but I still did not retreat.
Using the Four Immortals' Heavenly Circle Borrowed Law to protect myself, I searched for quite some time. Only after my clothes were torn did I give up searching the plaza.
I continued searching for Senior Brother in the locations of the other empty houses. Yet I was disappointed again. Senior Brother had vanished without a trace.
Could he have entered the city with Lin Zhengyi and the others? This was still the urban district; farther in lay the imperial city.
Just as I was about to step inside, my wife tugged at my clothes. Startled, I grabbed