The Desolate Land north of the Netherwild Upper Continent stretched boundlessly. At this moment, a flying vessel was racing through the sky.
Xu Chengtong and several of his disciples were aboard the vessel. Besides them, the cultivator surnamed Wang from the Profound Residence of the Netherwild Upper Continent and several of his disciples were traveling with them as well.
Earlier, when the cultivator surnamed Wang had asked how he intended to find Shen Cheng'an, there had in fact been one important clue in tracing this man's whereabouts.
Shen Cheng'an had once been threatened by the Origin Capital faction, forcing him to hide in the Guardian of Rectitude encampment. Yet only a few days after Origin Capital had withdrawn its hand, the man had vanished without a trace. There was very likely some connection between these two matters.
Thus, he had begun by investigating the cultivators who had taken refuge in the encampment. As fellow practitioners, they should have had dealings with one another.
From the results of his subsequent inquiries, most of those who had hidden in the encampment could be located. Yet one man named Liao Ling could not be contacted, and he happened to be the only one who had ever been abducted.
Xu Chengtong suspected that this matter might be connected to him. However, Liao Ling's original place of residence was unknown, and finding him by the old methods would have taken considerable effort. But circumstances were somewhat different now.
More than half a year had passed since then, and the Origin Capital Sect had been completely absorbed into Celestial Xia. Many records of lesser importance from the sects had been copied into the Heaven-Training Dao Canon, and he could investigate past accounts in the name of the Guardian of Rectitude Palace.
After some investigation, he discovered