In the darkness of night, figures were dim and shadowy.
Mo Hua raced toward Great Desert City.
Scattered camps lined both sides of the road, along with stationed cultivators.
These cultivators were not Dao soldiers, but cultivators from the Great Wilderness Sect who had headed south alongside the Dao Soldier Bureau to suppress the rebellion.
Now, they too had pitched camp alongside the main body of Dao soldiers.
From within the Great Wilderness Sect's camp came the faint auras of many powerful cultivators, quite a few of them Golden Core Cultivators.
There might even be True Persons of the Feather Transformation Realm.
Mo Hua thought, I guessed right. With the army setting out, the Great Wilderness Sect had to follow. Great Desert City's defenses must be weak now...
I need to hurry!
Mo Hua quickened his Movement Technique. Dressed in black, he traveled through the night, avoiding the Great Wilderness Sect's camps and its cultivators above the Golden Core Realm, then sped another two hundred li toward Great Desert City.
At a fork in the road, the Causality Line suddenly changed.
Mo Hua's heart gave a jolt, and he could not help stopping.
"Something's not right... Why do I... have such a bad feeling?"
Mo Hua frowned deeply. After a moment, he found a secluded spot and used the Monster Blood he had taken from Big Tiger some days ago to perform Demon Bone Divination once more. To his shock, he discovered that Big Tiger's aura was gone from Great Desert City.
"Gone?"
"Dead...?"
Mo Hua's heart trembled, but his expression then turned solemn. "No. The causality is still there. It hasn't been severed."
"Big Tiger's aura being gone from Great Desert City means that Big Tiger is no longer in Great Desert City?"
"If it isn't in Great Desert