"Is Master Tan Duan here?"
The man who called out raised his voice, making it ring across the temple grounds.
But after he shouted, Xu had no answer from within for a long while. He turned to look at his lord.
Commandery Governor Ye Nan hesitated, glanced at the temple gate, then sent two men inside to investigate.
They came back out before long.
"My lord, it's empty inside. There are only three people, two of them women. They look suspicious. What should we do with them?"
At their report, Ye Nan immediately asked, "Did you see Master Tan Duan?"
"We did not!"
"This..." Ye Nan's expression shifted between light and dark. He had not expected this turn of events, and women who wandered the martial world were, more often than not, mixed up in strange arts!
More importantly, everyone in the city had just seen the temple glow and tremble. For a moment, the whole city had even fallen into a daze and glimpsed a figure.
And that figure...
When Ye Nan stepped through the gate and saw Chen Cuo sitting cross-legged in the square before the temple, his heart gave a jolt. Chen Cuo overlapped with the figure in his memory, and awe rose in him despite himself.
Ye Nan managed to hold steady. He wielded authority, after all, and years in office had given him composure. But several of the people who had come with him pressed their palms together in prayer the moment they saw Chen Cuo's silhouette!
Their thoughts were immediately entrusted to him and entered his mind. Little Gourd then drew them into the Dream Marsh, straight toward the Golden Lotus Incarnation!
Without direction from Chen Cuo's mind, the incarnation barely reacted, but neither did it gather those thoughts in.
And so the entrusted