Chongming Sect.
Li Clan Ancestral Land.
Beside a lake surrounded by mountain forests, Li Xin sat cross-legged alone, his eyes slightly lowered. His ten fingers, tucked inside his sleeves, trembled faintly as he calculated and divined.
Two blazing Life Soul Lamps stood side by side before him.
The flame atop the left lamp burned fiercely, like the midday sun, bright and dazzling; the flame on the right surged and blazed brilliantly, already hinting at the might of a great sun hanging in the sky.
Pei Ling and Li Lieyue had been missing for a long time. Although, judging from Patriarch Netherblood's attitude, they should be unharmed, they were two important trump cards Li Clan would rely on to take over the Sacred Sect's power. Naturally, Li Clan treated their safety with utmost care.
At present, the Life Soul Lamps of these two juniors were both under the personal watch of Li Xin, the clan's current guardian patriarch.
The lamp on the left belonged to Li Lieyue; the one on the right, burning even more fiercely, belonged to Pei Ling.
During this time, the patriarch had used Li Clan's clan-guarding treasure to make repeated divinations using the two Life Soul Lamps.
But ever since Pei Ling underwent the Myriad Tribulation Deity Transformation, his Life Soul Lamp had no longer yielded any clues to his whereabouts. Li Lieyue's lamp also seemed to be obscured by some force. By now, Li Xin had tried many different methods, yet had still found nothing.
Because of this, a few days ago, he had gone to the Inheritance Hall to seek an audience and ask Patriarch Netherblood for guidance.
Yet the patriarch had offered only the brief reply, "Fortune," and said nothing more...
At this moment, Li Xin stopped calculating and slowly opened his eyes. Another