Jinling.
A Spirit Magpie flapped its wings and landed in a wealthy estate.
A pretty young girl reached out and stroked the Spirit Magpie's head, removed a ring from its leg, then stuffed a handful of Spirit Grain into its beak. "Little Ling, you're such a good girl!"
The girl was dressed as a maid. She crossed several halls and arrived outside a quiet chamber. "County Princess... a flying sparrow has delivered a letter."
"Come in!"
The door to the quiet chamber boomed open. The faint sound of a baby crying could be heard within, making the maid shrink her neck involuntarily.
She knew that her County Princess was a Great Cultivator, and that there were many strange things in the place where she secluded herself. It was said that the sound of babies crying could often be heard there.
But all the servants who had dared to investigate had vanished. Not a trace of them remained, neither alive nor dead!
As a result, she had become extremely obedient. Keeping her eyes on her nose and her nose on her heart, she entered the quiet chamber, paid no attention to the murals and writing around her, and handed the ring to County Princess Tianluo, who sat atop a meditation mat.
County Princess Tianluo took the ring and sent her divine sense into it. Her expression changed involuntarily. "The Wind Hearing Tower has been wiped out?"
The ring was a magical artifact capable of storing vast amounts of information. Among that information was news of the Wind Hearing Tower's destruction.
The cultivation force had been used by the imperial family to investigate the whereabouts of that Great Sage. It should have recently made some progress, yet unexpectedly, it had encountered such a calamity!
According to the letter, every cultivator in the