Gu Mingyuan glanced at Wu Zhu, who was kneeling on the ground. "Wait here."
Wu Zhu immediately lowered his head even further, hardly daring to breathe.
Gu Mingyuan took out a dark-red Communication Soul Tool and fed Soul Power into it.
Once its patterns lit up, he reported to Feng Ling that Xuan Zi had arrived in Ming Capital and found Tang Ya.
The other end fell silent for a moment.
Then Feng Ling's voice rose sharply.
"Where are you now? Has Xuan Zi seen you?"
"I'm still at the Outer City Branch Altar. Our informant at the academy sent word. I told her to go back to her dorm and keep quiet," Gu Mingyuan answered truthfully.
Feng Ling relaxed a little when she heard he had not been exposed.
Shrek and the Holy Spirit Cult were already bitter enemies. After the Death God Envoy incident, Shrek had struck back hard against Evil Soul Masters.
And that was without considering Gu Mingyuan's history with Shrek. He had only just been named Holy Son. If Shrek seized him now, it would be a disaster!
"Stay there. Don't show your face in Ming Capital for the next few days," Feng Ling ordered without hesitation.
"I'll handle Tang Ya."
"Xuan Zi dared come to the Sun Moon Empire alone to snatch someone away? Does he think the whole world belongs to Shrek?"
Gu Mingyuan agreed.
After ending the call, he put away the communicator and turned his gaze back to Wu Zhu.
With a thought, he activated the Mother Seal planted deep in Wu Zhu's Sea of Spirit.
Wu Zhu had only just managed to raise his head a little when his body went rigid. A long-forgotten agony tore through his soul, as though only that pain could remind him his soul still