After escaping from Lin Bai's hands, Madam Qianrou rushed straight to the lakeside without stopping. "City Lord, City Lord..."
Her voice was filled with urgency, and her expression was thick with unease and panic as she shouted toward the lake.
"What happened, Qianrou? Why are you so flustered?" the City Lord's gloomy voice came from within the lake.
The City Lord's voice was as hoarse and deep as ever, carrying the heavy weight of the passing years, as though it were the whisper of an ancient god from the end of time.
Madam Qianrou's mind was in turmoil. A mountain of information surfaced in tangled complexity, and for a moment, she had not prepared her words or even known where to begin.
Her eyes shifted as she decided to start with the most urgent matter. "The Chu imperial family has already discovered our location. They're almost at Verdant City!"
After she finished speaking, there was no reply from the lake for a long while.
She knew it was not that the City Lord had failed to hear her. Rather, he had heard her and simply chosen not to answer.
Though the City Lord said nothing, she could clearly feel the aura of power beneath the lake continuously growing stronger.
"So soon?" After learning that Lin Bai, the seven members of the Soul Refinement Sect, and Tuo Baxin had visited Verdant City one after another, the City Lord had known that Verdant City could no longer be preserved.
The Chu imperial family would investigate their location sooner or later.
But he had never expected them to arrive so quickly.
"How did you learn of this?" The City Lord was curious about where Madam Qianrou had gotten the news. Since she knew, why had she not come to report it earlier?
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