The moment Lu Feng and Ye Fan heard the words "kidnapped and ran off," their gazes instinctively met. In an instant, both understood what the other was thinking.
The woman they had seen in the mural that day, the one who had left alongside the merchant caravan, had not been an ordinary member of the Heaven Rain Clan. She had actually been their Saintess!
Thinking further along those lines, they also understood why that merchant had suddenly improved his brewing craft after returning.
It must have been because of the Saintess's Five Elements Pure Water Body. The Water Essence Qi, pure to the utmost extreme, had catalyzed the process and elevated the quality of his brew!
The figure continued, "The Saintess's selfish departure instantly drove both our clans into a desperate plight. The Heaven Rain Clan's chieftain acted decisively and dispatched over seventy percent of our two clans' people."
"One group was tasked with finding the Saintess and bringing her back. If they discovered that someone had defiled her and polluted her body, they were to kill her on the spot, then find another Five Elements Pure Water Body and bring her back."
"The rest were tasked with searching for a suitable Five Elements Pure Fire Body. Those assigned to this task were granted a longer time limit, beginning from the day our clan's Holy Envoy perished. That way, the chances of a new Five Elements Pure Fire Body being born in this world would be far greater."
"And what happened afterward?" Zhu Yizhong asked with great concern.
The figure said sorrowfully, "I do not know what happened after that. The ancient texts within the clan contain no clear record either. In any case, not a single person from the two groups that went out searching ever returned. That much