Qianliu City, one of the sole surviving Top Ten City Lords, was still enormous in scale, yet there was scarcely any life within it. Most crucially, the Protective Grand Array had actually been shut down.
A sudden sense of foreboding rose in Lu Ye's heart.
His premonition quickly came true, for even when he charged into Qianliu City alone, he encountered neither resistance nor obstruction.
And within the Central Great Hall, the place where the Uniting Dao Pearl should have been was now utterly empty. There was no trace of the Uniting Dao Pearl anywhere. Even the entire Central Great Hall was battered and broken, as though it had endured some formidable assault.
"Fellow Daoist Lu Ye?" A Dao Integration cultivator who had remained here gathered his courage and spoke. He should have been a cultivator of Qianliu City. "If you came seeking the Uniting Dao Pearl, then you are one step too late. Half a month ago, a powerful expert wearing a mask came here and took the Uniting Dao Pearl away."
A powerful expert wearing a mask could only have been a True Saint!
Moreover, in Lu Ye's perception, the last Core Fragment of the core Uniting Dao Pearl was indeed located in the direction of Abyss Island.
He himself could sense the approximate location of the Core Fragments. Back when Blood Drinking City had shattered and the Core Fragment was lost, it had been Lu Ye, upon returning from the Origin Realm, who told the Dragon Sovereign its approximate location. The Dragon Sovereign had then dispatched people to search for it.
Half a month ago...
That was precisely when he and Yang Qing had been in the River of Time and Sequence, waiting for the Seventh Generation Master to undergo nirvana.
Lu Ye could not help sighing