The Peak Master of Red Leaf Peak looked at Chen Changan, thoroughly embarrassed. After all, he had insisted time and again that this assignment was merely a formality and nothing could go wrong.
And in truth, it had been a routine assignment, one that posed no difficulty for Da Huang.
Chen Changan and the others had been gone just over a year in total, counting the journey there and back and their time in Ancient Domain Cave Heaven.
Six months should have been more than enough for Da Huang. By rights, he should have returned long ago, yet there had been no word of him.
The Peak Master of Red Leaf Peak had even sent quite a few people to search for Da Huang and gather news of him, but they had come back with nothing.
For a while, the Peak Master of Red Leaf Peak had no idea how to explain this to Chen Changan.
"Hmm... Where did you send him?"
"What general area?"
Compared with the Peak Master of Red Leaf Peak's embarrassment and unease, Chen Changan seemed remarkably calm.
"Somewhere around the Profound Realm Sect, I think."
"All I asked him to do was scout the area. He only had to go there and look around."
"I honestly don't know how he could have disappeared."
"All right, don't blame yourself. This isn't your fault."
"How could it not be my fault? If I hadn't sent him there, he wouldn't have..."
"It really isn't your fault!"
Chen Changan cut the Peak Master off. Knowing Da Huang, that damned dog had definitely found something.
"Are there... any brothels around there?"
Brothels?
The Peak Master froze at Chen Changan's question. What on earth was a brothel?
"Uh... What kind of place is a brothel? An organization? A faction?"
"Does Da