The resting place provided by the merchant guild was never anything fancy; to be honest, it was rather crude. When no one answered my knock, I merely pushed the door, and it creaked open.
The door used an Origin Force lock, which could only stay locked as long as it had energy. I had probably happened to catch it when it was out of power.
Seeing that the door had opened, I could only step aside and ask, "Senior? Are you inside?"
Yet there was no answer at all, which made things rather awkward.
After thinking it over, I still leaned toward the crack in the door to look inside. The scene that met my eyes made them widen!
Senior Yu, who had originally looked like a bearded, middle-aged-to-elderly Daoist, was nowhere to be seen. Instead, a woman was sprawled across the bed!
The woman appeared to be around twenty-four or twenty-five. She wore a set of azure cultivation robes, and her delicate beauty held a hint of mature charm. Her figure was not much different from Senior Yu's.
No, it could even be said that they were exactly the same. Even the clothes belonged to Senior Yu, didn't they?
But the two were a man and a woman, with no resemblance whatsoever. Could this be a woman Senior Yu had abducted?
At that thought, I hurried over to check on her. Only after drawing close did I realize that she wasn't asleep—she had fainted.
Beside the bed sat a small medicine box. I quickly picked it up and sniffed it. At first, a warm fragrance rushed into my nose, but after taking another breath, I suddenly found my steps wavering. My legs even went weak, and I nearly collapsed onto the floor!
Something was wrong. There was definitely something