The Moon Rose Above the Willow Tips (First Update)

"Blood Fang Divine Constable" Residence.

Yuan Lihuo had just returned to his study when he saw Meng Qi, dressed in blue robes, standing quietly before the bookshelves and admiring his collection. A faint, nearly imperceptible smile appeared on his stern face. He turned, shut the door, and activated the warding spell.

"I thought you had already left the Divine Capital," Yuan Lihuo said as he turned back.

After seeing Meng Qi arrange for Zhao Heng to join the periphery of Immortal Trace and comprehend Dao Spreads Across the Universe, then depart with a flourish, he had assumed Meng Qi regarded the Nine Heavens Ruins as a flood or savage beast, avoiding it as far as possible.

Meng Qi lowered the book in his hand and teased, "I haven't said farewell to Senior yet. How would I dare leave the Divine Capital directly?"

Knowing that Meng Qi had a lively personality and enjoyed joking around, Yuan Lihuo said solemnly, "This old man received another piece of news today."

"Is it related to the Nine Heavens Ruins?" Meng Qi picked up the purple clay teapot on the desk and casually poured tea for both of them.

Yuan Lihuo did not stand on ceremony. He sat down, gave the tea a cursory inspection, and took a sip. "What Bai Ning brought wasn't merely half of the map to the entrance of the Nine Heavens Ruins, but the entire map!"

"What about the other half?" Meng Qi seemed to understand what Sun Yuexiu and the others were fighting over.

Yuan Lihuo nodded lightly, as if praising Meng Qi's sharpness. "Bai Ning feared that the Son of Heaven and the court ministers would break their word and secretly kill him, so he gave the other half of the entrance map to his biological younger brother,