Song Wen did not take up Ying Wu's remark, instead changing the subject. "I came today because I have a serious matter for which I need your help."
He then recounted in detail the destruction of Mountain-Crushing City.
After hearing this, Ying Wu agreed without the slightest hesitation. "All right. I'll accompany you to Mountain-Crushing City."
Afterward, Song Wen, Ying Wu, Zhou Siyi, and the Crimson-Scaled King returned to the Divine Blood Sect via the teleportation array.
After gathering the inner sect elders and giving them various instructions, Song Wen and Ying Wu rode the Kui Bull westward.
As for the Crimson-Scaled King and the ninth-rank Void Dragon Vine, they remained at the Divine Blood Sect to guard against anyone taking advantage of the weakness to launch a sneak attack.
Three months later.
"Ying Wu, Glazed Light City should not be far ahead. Be more cautious," Song Wen said.
During their journey, whenever they happened to pass through a city, Song Wen had briefly stopped in several of them and used the communication arrays maintained by Blood Shadow Hall's hidden operatives to contact the Divine Blood Sect. He learned that:
Over the past three months, not another city had been destroyed, and Glazed Light City remained safe and sound. Even so, they could not afford to let down their guard.
As they drew closer and closer to Glazed Light City, Ying Wu had the Kui Bull slow down.
Before long, Glazed Light City entered the range of the two men's divine senses.
Glazed Light City was indeed intact, but scarcely a single figure could be seen on its crisscrossing streets.
The entire city stood empty, and its defensive grand formation had already been activated.
Clearly, news of Mountain-Crushing City's destruction had long since spread. The cultivators in the surrounding region