Wishes I

Yuan City · Heavenly Curtain Pavilion.

Fine red blood blossoms drifted slowly down from the sky.

Standing before the window, Zhang Rongfang reached out and caught a red blood blossom the size of a fingernail. He let it slowly melt in his palm, broken down by his body heat and evaporating into blood mist.

"This is the heavenly flowers raining down and blood lotuses springing from the earth, as recorded in the legends."

He turned to look at Chang Yuqing and Ding Yu, who had been waiting behind him for some time.

"Only this can be called an immortal realm on earth... Where has Instant Tower's team reached?"

Chang Yuqing stepped forward.

"Reporting to Master, they have reached the vicinity of the Red River Mountain Range."

Now, through maps gathered from all three sides, coupled with the shared information from La, Zhang Rongfang had gained an overall understanding of the entire Black Sand Land. He had also named several distinctive landmarks.

"Master, are we really going to make a move?" Ding Yu asked hesitantly. "The Three Evil Kings are leader-level figures in Instant Tower. If we strike so brazenly, what if we provoke Long's hostility?"

"Do you think Long does not know that? Do you think he does not know that I want to collect more flesh-and-blood samples?" Zhang Rongfang asked in return.

"...You mean Aufika was an bait sent by Long from the start, or perhaps a test? He wants to probe the depth of our strength?" Chang Yuqing truly could draw inferences from one instance to another; she was exceptionally clever.

"That is part of it. Since they have offered us bait, would refusing to swallow it not betray their kind intentions?" Zhang Rongfang smiled with his hands behind his back.

"But Aufika's strength is no small matter.