"Chao Shenghuai has vanished?" Envoy Lu frowned. "When did it happen?"
The messenger reported, "Just yesterday! I found another informant and asked about Tu Yuanpei, only to learn that the Myriad Beasts Sect was searching everywhere for Chao Shenghuai. The moment I heard Chao Shenghuai had disappeared, knowing it concerned the task we came here for, I immediately looked into what had happened. He said Chao Shenghuai was drinking at a tavern in Myriad Phenomena City yesterday when a waiter suddenly called him away. After that, he never appeared again. Once the commotion broke out, the Myriad Beasts Sect disciples who had gone with him investigated and discovered that the tavern had long been prepared for this. Chao Shenghuai had most likely met with misfortune..."
He explained everything he had learned, saying that despite the Myriad Beasts Sect mobilizing in full force, they had yet to find any trace of Chao Shenghuai.
Envoy Lu's brow furrowed deeply as he paced back and forth. Slowly, he said, "He did not disappear early, nor did he disappear late, but vanished precisely the day before we arrived. Could there be something fishy about this?"
They had come under the orders of Ding Wei, who held the command token of the Misty Pavilion during this term of rotation.
Huang Ban had witnessed the dispute between Chao Jing and Taishu Shanyue, then reported the matter. When Ding Wei received the news, he found it rather interesting. Niu Youdao and the Chao grandfather and grandson had caused so much trouble behind the scenes, yet the Misty Pavilion had failed to grasp any of it.
The Sacred Venerable had already been dissatisfied with the Misty Pavilion, and now that it was Ding Wei's turn to oversee it, he could not simply stand by. Moreover, because of the