Suitor?

"Cult Leader, the Eastern Thirty-Six Commanderies have already been sealed off by the various commanderies. Yang Chen should find it very difficult to escape, right?" someone said.

"That would be escaping the Eastern Thirty-Six Commanderies. If Yang Chen truly reaches that point, our Black Dragon Cult will no longer have the authority to interfere. What we need to do now is make sure Yang Chen cannot leave our territory. Since the other factions want it, we must also dip our hands into it. A Top-grade Profound Heaven Treasure is no ordinary treasure. Do any of you have objections?" Fu Longyue bellowed.

"No, no objections!" the Elders said in unison.

Fu Longyue said gravely, "Then what are you standing around for? Hurry up and get to it!"

Twenty days later, atop Zhenfeng Mountain in Bai Qiong County, a beautiful woman in a long white dress stood at the peak, gazing into the distance before her in silence for a long while.

"It has already been more than twenty days..." the woman murmured.

She was Jiang Caiying. Using the Great Teleportation Golden Bead, she had come directly to Bai Qiong County. Then, following Yang Chen's instructions, she had waited on Zhenfeng Mountain, hoping to see his return.

Yet after more than twenty consecutive days, she still had not seen the figure she longed to see.

One day passed like this. Ten days passed like this. Even now, it was still the same.

Thinking back to the day of their escape, Jiang Caiying's delicate body trembled. *How could I have been so foolish? How could I have believed—believed that he could escape alive from the Black Dragon Cult? I should have given him the Great Teleportation Golden Bead. I am nothing but a burden. I burdened my master, and now I have