"Mr. Qingsong had not shown his face for nearly ten days now. Yan Luo Hall was pressing forward step by step."
"The main city is still holding steady, isn't it...?"
"I'm afraid it can't hold out much longer. There have been far too many rumors lately—inside the city and outside it alike. No one can tell truth from falsehood."
"They say many treasures have been dug up from the Graveyard of Grudges again, but it looks more like something deliberately arranged, carrying the scent of a feint."
"But I heard that quite a few people really have been buried in the forest, especially ghost cultivators. The living cannot be found, and the dead leave no corpses..."
Zhao Fang and Zou Bo traded remarks back and forth. When it came to Huayan City's situation, they spoke with remarkable clarity.
The two had not originally been so idle. However, Yu Ci had already decided that once the injury to his leg healed tomorrow, he would leave the Cai family. Tonight, they had come over with Cai Xuan for a farewell chat. Cai Xuan's serious injuries had yet to heal, so he went back to rest midway through. That left only the two brothers, chatting about Huayan City's current state.
Yu Ci had little interest in the matter and rarely spoke. Yet Zhao Fang and Zou Bo had other aims. Gradually, they steered the conversation toward Yu Ci's travel plans.
It was not that they were probing for intelligence. They had come to the Northern Wastes to cultivate and gain experience, collecting bone-blood spirit seeds unique to the local creatures. But after offending the Heaven Seizing Sect, their plans had been thrown into complete disarray. They wanted to return to their sect, yet could not resign themselves to it. They were really testing