About three days after Daoist Zhe left, a streak of escaping light appeared in the sky. The light descended and landed within this abandoned, ruined encampment.
Shi Yue looked around. This time, several small mixed cultivator encampments in the Desolate Domain had vanished, so he had come here on Zhang Yu's orders to investigate.
Yet as he looked upon the bleak landscape around him, his expression did not look good. The situation here was almost exactly the same as at the several encampments where he had previously found problems.
He investigated the place, but as before, found no useful clues and could only leave for the time being.
Over the next half month, he traveled through the mixed cultivators' encampments across the wilderness. Yet it was as if the other party knew he had arrived; nothing else happened afterward.
Fearing that this matter might be connected to Frost Continent, he drafted a letter detailing what he had uncovered and had a disciple deliver it to the Fangtai Sect encampment.
After receiving this letter, Zhang Yu attached great importance to it.
There were still more than ten days before the northern war began. No matter how minor something appeared, it could not be overlooked.
Moreover, no fewer than seventy people had vanished in this series of incidents. Though most had been low-ranking cultivators, human lives could not be counted so lightly.
And among the missing cultivators was even a Fourth Chapter cultivator. This showed that the person behind it was at least at that level, and Zhang Yu could not help but take it seriously.
After considering the matter, he summoned Daoist Wan Ming and said, "Daoist Shi has just sent word that there have been some changes in the Southern Region. He alone cannot handle them, so I must go