Spirit City.
Gui Mei sat in his secret chamber. Before him, an oil lamp flickered with an eerie green flame, casting light over his paper-pale face.
He had been waiting for three days.
Three days ago, Zhao Hei had set out for the Tiandou Empire. The mission was simple: capture Dugu Yan and bring her back to Spirit City.
Gui Mei had given Zhao Hei enough time and freedom to choose the right moment to strike.
Zhao Hei was an eighty-fourth-level Soul Douluo. Tracking and concealment were his specialties; dealing with a forty-fifth-level Soul Ancestor should have been effortless.
But three days had passed, and Zhao Hei had not returned.
No message, no signal, no movement whatsoever.
It was as if he had vanished into thin air.
Gui Mei's fingers tapped rhythmically against the armrest. No emotion could be seen in his eerie green eyes, but those who knew him understood that Ghost Douluo was in a bad mood.
"Dugu Bo..."
He softly spoke the name, his voice like the low cry of a night owl.
The most likely explanation for Zhao Hei's disappearance was that he had encountered Dugu Bo.
That Old Poisoner, known as the "most useless Titled Douluo," seemed to have undergone some unusual changes recently.
It was not as though Gui Mei had never investigated Dugu Bo, but the information he found was limited. He only knew that Dugu Bo had left Heaven Dou City with his granddaughter three months ago. When they returned three months later, Dugu Yan's Martial Soul had changed from the Jade Python Snake into the Jade Scale Dragon. Her Soul Power had soared from level thirty-four to level forty-five, and her fourth Soul Ring was even a ten-thousand-year one.
Gui Mei was extremely interested in Dugu Yan's changes.
If he could