He clearly hadn't expected Bai He to appear here.
Bai He should have been guarding the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. What was he doing in Gengxin City?
Or had something happened at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well?
"Bring Chief Bai in."
Lou Gao spoke without looking up, his gaze fixed once more on the Soul Tool blueprints spread across the table, his face rapt.
One finger still rested on an array structure in the drawing, its tip trembling slightly. He couldn't bear to pull it away.
Never in his life had he seen such an ingenious design. The arrangement of the Soul Tool Arrays and the paths that channeled Soul Power had overturned everything he knew about forging.
Since receiving the blueprints last night, he had barely closed his eyes. Even when a disciple brought him food, he had only shoveled down a couple of bites.
Yang Jian sat nearby, already frowning.
He had reached much the same conclusion as Tai Tan: unless something had happened at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Bai He would never have traveled all this way.
Bai He was always reliable and knew what mattered most. Unless the sky was falling, he would never abandon the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
Tai Tan set down the blueprint in his hands. His smile faded, and his thick fingers tapped the table twice without his noticing.
Sure enough, a short while later, Bai He appeared before Yang Jian and Tai Tan, his expression grave.
Dust from the road still clung to his robes, and the wind had tousled his hair. The exhaustion on his face could not hide the urgency in his eyes.
Only when he saw the two of them did Bai He finally manage a smile.
"I finally found you two. The