A Traitor Feeding from Two Troughs

"Elder, this is a letter Li Wuhua asked me to deliver to you."

While they were searching, a Xiaoyao Palace disciple handed Shan Hai a scrap of cloth. After reading it, Shan Hai suddenly looked up and asked in a deep voice, "You didn't stop them?"

The disciple replied cautiously, "There was only one person. This disciple didn't know what was happening at first. By the time I read the letter's contents clearly, he had already run off."

Yan Li, an Elder of Purple Gold Cave and one of the three sects' core members traveling together, asked, "A letter from Li Wuhua? What is this about?"

Shan Hai tossed him the scrap of cloth. Yan Li fell silent after reading it.

Chu Fengping then took the cloth from Yan Li's hand and examined it himself. He too was speechless. He bore some responsibility for this matter.

The letter said nothing else. Li Wuhua said that the Sect Master and the others had been missing for so many days, and he did not know whether something had happened to them. As disciples of Myriad Grotto Heaven Manor, they could not simply stand by, so they had to go search for them. Fearing that this side would stop them, they had left without saying farewell, hoping this side would understand their good intentions.

The three of them had nothing to say about it. The people from Myriad Grotto Heaven Manor were worried for their Sect Master's safety and had gone looking for him; there was no fault to find with that.

Shan Hai turned to Chu Fengping instead and asked in a deep voice, "Brother Chu, your disciple Cai Jinqi, along with Situ Yao and the others, as well as Yan Baoru, all vanished at the same time. Just what are you