Water Ghost knew Ancestor Wuji of the Inner Island.
Or rather, he had seen Ancestor Wuji's vessel—Liu Changqing.
Void Island drifted through spacetime rifts year-round and rarely appeared in the world. Before this descent upon the Holy Spirit Continent, a story had circulated: someone had stumbled into Void Island by a twist of fate, broken off a Blood Tree Yin Branch within the Blood Realm, only to become entangled by a Ghost Beast and seek a way to save himself.
That person was Liu Changqing.
His first method of self-rescue, coincidentally enough, had been to visit the Spirit Palace Trading Fair and practically expose his own identity by seeking to trade the Blood Tree Yin Branch for information on Ghost Beasts.
More coincidentally still, his appearance had not only utterly ruined the Holy Spirit Hall's intelligence blockade concerning Sky City, but also indirectly confirmed through word of mouth among the highest powers of East Heavenly King City that Sky City was no paradise hidden from the world.
Even more coincidentally, the power behind the Spirit Palace Trading Fair was the Night Cats, and the Night Cats' boss was Water Ghost of the Saint Slave.
Flawless!
That was what Liu Changqing thought. After all, his method of self-rescue had preserved his life.
Perfect!
That was what Ancestor Wuji thought as well. He had completed his first rendezvous after coming out.
—During the few days after the trading fair ended and Liu Changqing vanished.
Mm, Xu Xiaoshou had merely been an accident. Water Ghost had been the card laid down back on the Inner Island! And it was during that period that...
Water Ghost learned every detail of the plan concerning Void Island.
Meeting the puzzled gazes of Xu Xiaoshou and Mei Suren, Water Ghost was inwardly frantic and spoke at a