When Jiang Wang received Lin Youxie's message, he had only just returned to Linzi. He was considering how to speak with Chongxuan Sheng about the Near-Sea Archipelago—though in truth, there was no need to say anything. The instant Chongxuan Sheng saw him, he understood.
The news delivered through the Green Badge channels was truly a lifeline.
Jiang Wang immediately activated his Heavenly Mansion Body, soaring splendidly into the sky and carrying Chongxuan Sheng straight from Linzi to Deer Frost Commandery.
Deer Frost Commandery lay northwest of Linzi. It was the ancestral land of Jiang Wuqi's maternal Lei Clan, with only Le'an Commandery separating it from Linzi City.
No one had expected Shi Si to have slipped about silently for several days, only to still be circling within the heartland of Qi State, never having left the country at all. No wonder the cities of the border commanderies had received no news; no wonder even Jiang Wang's personal voyage out to sea had failed to catch a trace of her.
Chongxuan Sheng and Jiang Wang had mobilized every connection they had, drawing a huge circle across Qi State's vast territory, yet Shi Si had been circling within that very circle all along...
For all these years, Shi Si had always followed Chongxuan Sheng. Wherever Chongxuan Sheng went, she went.
By this count, this was her first time acting on her own... and she had clearly made a mess of it.
Luckily, she had made a mess of it.
Jiang Wang descended into the woods, leaving the undisturbed reunion and time to pour out their hearts to the two people gazing at each other.
At this moment, Lin Youxie was sitting on a horizontal branch with her little feet dangling, swaying them unconsciously.
Sometimes she was like a leaf, and also a