"No! Something's wrong!" Golden Crocodile's voice burst into Qian Daoliu's quarters in the Worship Hall of Spirit City.
"Big brother, Xue'er's gone! All she left was this letter!"
Golden Crocodile crashed through the wooden door and slapped the letter into Qian Daoliu's hand.
"What happened!?"
Qian Daoliu jolted out of meditation, Golden Crocodile's words still echoing in his head: Xue'er's gone.
"Big brother, look. A servant found this in Xue'er's room."
Qian Daoliu took the letter from Golden Crocodile and unfolded it. Neat handwriting appeared before his eyes.
"Hey, old man, I'm going out to have some fun. Don't worry about me!"
Qian Daoliu stared at the words, his brow furrowing. He knew his granddaughter. She would never have left a message like this.
His granddaughter would never call him "old man"!
Who was it? Who had lured away his adorable granddaughter!?
The thought of some wild boy holding his precious granddaughter's hand as they wandered wherever they pleased—
No matter what Qian Daoliu did, he could not put out the fire raging inside him!
"Big brother, didn't you sense Xue'er leaving?"
Golden Crocodile stood to one side, looking at Qian Daoliu's dark expression with a growing sense of dread.
He had never seen Qian Daoliu look like this.
And why did he look like someone whose precious cabbage had been rooted up by a pig?
Could it be...
"No. I don't know how Xue'er did it, but she evaded everyone's senses."
Qian Daoliu shook his head. Normally, when Qian Renxue left her room, the elders' Spiritual Power would detect her.
But this time, for some reason, none of them had detected her. They had not sensed a thing.
It was as if Qian Renxue had vanished into thin air.
"Then what should we do?"
"Should we send people to