After everyone's agitated emotions had calmed somewhat, Ning Fa swept his gaze around, his sword-like brows suddenly rising.
He had noticed that Le'er and Zhu Lingyun were missing from the crowd, and an ominous feeling immediately rose in his heart.
He at once spread his divine sense with all his might, covering the entire space, yet he still could not find the two of them.
Moreover, Luo Feixuan was nowhere to be seen, and Blue Lightning was not here either.
"Where are Le'er and Ling Yun?" Ning Fa asked, his expression somewhat grim.
Cheng Susu and the others wore troubled looks, seemingly unsure how to begin. Ning Fa's heart sank even further.
At that moment, Cheng Ziyi gave a bitter smile. "Xiaofa, it's a long story. Let's go back first, and then we'll explain it all to you."
Not long afterward, inside a great hall, Ning Fa's face had already turned livid after hearing Cheng Susu, Huangfu Ziyue, and the others finish their account.
It turned out that more than fifty years ago, on the eve of the Qianyuan Merchant Alliance's imminent discovery of Xuan Ning Island, Huangfu Ziyue and the others, who had been hiding in this ancestral land, suddenly received a secret message from Fairy Yuanxing.
She said that her strength was about to run dry and that she would fall into slumber, so she asked Huangfu Ziyue to take the people away from Xuan Ning Island.
This had originally been extremely difficult. After all, the Qianyuan Merchant Alliance was constantly using powerful divination methods to calculate Le'er's whereabouts. Once they left Xuan Ning Island, they would very likely be exposed immediately.
Fortunately, Huangfu Ziyue and the others had managed to enlist Lord Divine Wood's help. In the end, they brought everyone from the island back to the