"East?"
After hearing Wu Yuanbo's words, Lou Yue looked utterly bewildered, unable to react for a moment. With the White Jade Python's assault bearing down on him, he had no chance to calm himself and think it through.
After giving it some thought, Jiang Ruoyun understood and said with a bitter smile, "So the Contact Symbol carried a reverse meaning. No wonder the Ancient Moon Sect party ultimately split into two groups."
"If the commotion from fighting the White Jade Python hadn't been so great, these people probably wouldn't have come looking for us at all."
Lu Feng nodded in agreement.
Judging from Wu Yuanbo's words, the symbol originally left upon that massive message stone should have pointed north. Because it held a reverse meaning, his group had headed east instead. If it truly concerned tracking Ling Tian's whereabouts, then Ling Tian should also have gone east.
Later, the Mad Blade Sect group arrived. Unaware that the Contact Symbol contained a reverse meaning, they followed its indication north. They even played a little trick by shifting the stone and turning its direction east, making it difficult for the Ancient Moon Sect group to reunite.
After that came the scene Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun had encountered. Upon noticing traces of the stone having been moved, they had cleverly assumed that it had originally pointed north. Though that was indeed true, they likewise did not understand its reverse meaning and had followed it north.
Only after the stone had been moved and reversed again did they truly encounter the Ancient Moon Sect's later party.
Unexpectedly, Lou Yue had moved it back again on the grounds of those traces, believing that east was the correct direction, unaware that the stone had already been moved twice in succession.
And following the reverse meaning