"Lord Feng?"
Feng Linxi shuddered slightly, snapping back to his senses.
He quickly concealed the astonishment in his eyes and turned to look.
"What is it?"
Chen Changeng gave him a puzzled look. "What were you looking at? You seemed so lost in thought."
"Nothing."
Feng Linxi shook his head, his tone level. "I might have been mistaken."
"..."
Chen Changeng frowned slightly and followed his earlier gaze. In the distant sea of people, three cultivators sat cross-legged: one man and two women. At first glance, there was nothing remarkable about them.
But when he took a closer look at the face of the white-robed girl among them, a thoughtful expression crossed his face.
"Why does that girl look so familiar...?"
Chen Changeng narrowed his eyes, trying to search his memories for where he had seen that face.
Before he could recall anything, however—
Feng Linxi drew a deep breath beside him, forcibly pulling his attention back.
"Commander Chen, given the current situation, I fear our original plan will no longer work."
His thoughts interrupted, Chen Changeng turned toward Feng Linxi and paid no further attention to the girl.
Throughout his years of cultivation and service as a commander of the Sky-Patrol Bureau, he had met more people than he could count.
Perhaps he had simply met someone who looked like her.
She probably was not anyone important... otherwise, with his memory, he ought to have remembered her.
At that thought, he cast aside his doubts, his expression turning solemn once more.
"Indeed... the Buddhist Sect has organized this Gratitude Assembly on such a grand scale that the Heavenly Court was already deeply wary, fearing they might be using it to plot something..."
As he spoke, Chen Changeng looked toward the White Jade Lotus Platform. "Originally, we intended to use