Sun Qiongyu's timely arrival was no coincidence.
She had reached Cape City ahead of them—an Innate Master could run across land far faster than a ship could sail across the sea. But she had spent her days there gathering information and checking whether it was true.
It was painstaking, meticulous work. Sun Qiongyu had been run off her feet; when would she have found time for a welcome banquet?
People of the Martial World never stood on such hollow ceremony.
Just then, she had been heading to a black market to ask an information broker for the day's latest news when she suddenly heard someone speak to her through voice transmission.
The speaker told her that the Jade Tower Sect's people had arrived in Cape City, met with obstruction at the Ship Affairs Office, and were now at the Divine Martial Bureau. The bureau was deserted except for one ill-intentioned True Person Realm expert who was deliberately concealing his strength.
Sun Qiongyu was a veteran of the Martial World. It took her only seconds to piece together what was happening.
The speaker was a man. He sounded young and had a faint Northlands accent. His abilities were so formidable that she could not tell where his voice was coming from. He seemed intent on helping the Jade Tower Sect, yet unwilling to show himself... Put together, those clues made his identity all but obvious.
Pan Long, fiancé of the Jade Tower Sect's deputy leader, Wu Cuigu, and the strongest young fighter in Great Xia.
Pan Long was a True Person who had attained Return to the Natural State. Judging by the two battles around last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, he was exceptionally powerful even among those in the True Person Realm. His defeat of the Cang Family's three True Persons could