Someone from TOPS Arrives

"Drowning Dreamer Town, Humanoid Ethereals, mist steeped in corruption... your efforts to punish evil are exactly what I had hoped for!"

After hearing the whole story, Ban Yue immediately made a promise.

"When you set out, simply send word to me. I, Ban Yue, will do everything in my power to help."

With that, Ban Yue bowed and took his leave. Wise watched him walk out of Whatever Temple, then turned to Griseo and asked, "Griseo, what was that important matter Master Yixuan mentioned?"

When Yixuan had said goodbye to them a few days earlier, she had said she was going to resolve the backlash affecting their senior sister Xiaoguang, the Azure Nether Swordmaster. Yet only Griseo had returned.

"Nothing much. Some long-buried matters from Yunkui Mountain."

Griseo shook her head, declining to elaborate. It was someone else's family business, after all, so she would rather not meddle.

After a pause, Griseo asked, "By the way, Wise, Belle, have you seen Ye Shunguang, the Azure Nether Swordmaster? She came down the mountain without permission."

"No."

"I haven't seen her..."

Wise and Belle both shook their heads.

Wise had been out investigating the whole time, while Belle had stayed at Whatever Temple, but neither had seen the young senior sister they had heard so much about.

"All right! It's getting late, Belle. I'm going back to my room to rest." Griseo gave a little yawn as she spoke—she was rather tired today, after all.

The night passed uneventfully.

As the last gentle traces of night faded from Weifei Land, the purple glow at the edge of Lemnian Hollow was gradually overtaken by dawn in the east, and the main city of Chenghui Plateau came "alive" once more in the morning light.

"Belle, Mato just sent word asking us to meet