Just after Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu left, a raging fire consumed the Dream Family estate. By the time the Imperial Family arrived to put it out, the once-glorious estate had become a heap of ruins. Devastation lay everywhere, the vegetation burned clean away, as though a Death Spirit Master had paid the place a visit. They also found a charred corpse in the collapsed wooden house. Judging by its clothing and jewelry, they tentatively identified it as the Dream Family's current Seer.
Everyone knew that the Dream Family's Seers had never possessed any cultivation, relying solely on divination to glimpse heaven's secrets. Thus, it seemed understandable that Dream Seer had failed to escape the estate before the fire.
Once the news spread, Dream Capital City erupted.
First the Mo Family, then the Dream Family. Of Dream Capital City's four great families, only the ever-neutral Li Family and the unfathomable Thousand Family remained.
"Could the Dream Family have glimpsed some prophecy and brought this disaster upon themselves?"
"They must have been killed to silence them."
"Wasn't the one who sent the whole city into a panic last time the Dream Family's missing former Seer?"
In a teahouse, a large group of idle patrons chatted about the fire that had destroyed the Dream Family and Dream Seer's murder. Speculation flew, their accounts growing ever more vivid. A man seated in a corner sipped his tea and listened to the gossip, a pleased smile curling his lips. He clicked his tongue in regret, though whether he regretted Dream Seer's early death or the Dream Family's disappearance in a single blaze was impossible to tell.
Meanwhile, Dongfang Minghui, whom Qian Wanyu had brought back from the Dream Family, was not having an easy time either. She lay slumped over the stone table, utterly