After five consecutive Instant Movement uses of the Mirror Light Technique, Lu Yin gazed into the distance and saw a body of water suspended in the starry sky. It was that First Line of Heaven. He had found it.
That First Line of Heaven was exactly where Little Eighteen had been headed.
But Little Eighteen was nowhere to be found, and there was no trace of the Pathfinding Stone's consciousness nearby.
Lu Yin stared at the water in silence. He didn't enter right away. Instead, he used Instant Movement to return to Human Civilization.
After seven jumps, Lu Yin returned to Human Civilization and went to the Consciousness Universe to find Fourth Brother.
"Little Eighteen is missing?" Fourth Brother exclaimed.
Lu Yin's expression was solemn. "I can't sense the Pathfinding Stone..."
He told Fourth Brother everything he knew.
After listening, Fourth Brother said gravely, "This isn't your fault. Traveling through Cubic Distance is inherently dangerous. Lu Yin, take me to where it disappeared. I'll look for it."
"I'll help you search."
"No need. The Seven Treasures Heavenly Toad has its own ways of searching. You focus on what you need to do," Fourth Brother said.
Lu Yin didn't insist. The Seven Treasures Heavenly Toads weren't so helpless that they needed him to look after them.
Little Eighteen had cultivated step by step, relying on fighting, not talent.
Even if it had died this time, no one would blame Lu Yin.
Lu Yin took Fourth Brother to the place where Little Eighteen had disappeared.
Fourth Brother looked at Lu Yin. "Dad once said that birth in this universe means your life and death are already fated. If we find it, it'll be lucky. If we don't, that's fate too."
Neither of them suggested that Little Eighteen might have left before completing