The moment Huang Yuankun finished speaking, the faint smile vanished from Li Yun's face, and the temperature around him plunged.
An invisible chill silently enveloped the entire hall. No killing intent erupted, yet the air seemed to freeze. Even Huang Yuankun, a Great Sage, went rigid as cold sweat instantly soaked his robes.
The thing he had feared most had happened after all.
When Li Yun first arrived in the Hengwu Domain, he had come to Black Ice Star. Back then, his cultivation was weak, and he had nowhere to stay. Only Xu An's help and hospitality had gotten him through those first difficult days.
Xu An had treated him sincerely. He was the first friend Li Yun had made since coming to the Hengwu Domain!
Li Yun had seized the Through-Ancient Transmission Gate in the Pale Moon World so hastily that he had neither the time nor the means to warn Xu An to flee. He had worried ever since that Xu An might be implicated because of him.
After leaving Silver Fox Star, Li Yun had made Black Ice Star his first stop precisely because he wanted to put that worry to rest.
He had still arrived too late.
Xu An really had been captured.
Li Yun's expression darkened completely. His gaze, sharp as a blade, fixed on Huang Yuankun, and his voice was cold as ice. "What did you say? Say it again."
Huang Yuankun's heart jolted. He dared not hide a thing and hurried to explain, his voice trembling. "Please calm down, Fellow Daoist Li!"
"Xu An and his mother have only been confined to a small courtyard behind the Carter City Lord's Mansion. Their lives aren't in danger, and someone takes care of their three meals a day..."
"Confined..."
Li Yun slowly repeated the word,