On the ridge at the edge of Sunset Forest, the morning mist wound like gauze among the pine branches, not yet fully dispersed.
Three figures hid behind dense shrubs, their hawklike gazes fixed on the family of three on the mountain path below-they were Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Ning Fengzhi held a folding fan, his fingertips unconsciously tracing the glazed patterns on its ribs. His usually gentle face was now veiled in solemnity.
Beside him, Chen Xin's silver hair cascaded like a waterfall, and the mountain breeze stirred the cuffs of his plain white swordsman's robes. The chilling sword energy surrounding him was sharper than usual. His gaze landed precisely on the cloth bundle in Tang Hao's arms, missing not even the baby's swaddling visible through its folds.
Bone Douluo Gu Rong leaned against a tree trunk, his thin, bony knuckles cracking, his cloudy eyes filled with scrutiny.
This was the first time in recent years that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's master and both its Titled Douluos had left the sect together, all because the secret involving the couple below was enough to shake the balance between soul beasts and humans across the continent.
They had made this exception and begun tracking them because of a shocking secret Chen Xin had learned from his father, Chen Jianjun, while visiting him at the Sunset Forest Branch Hall: Tang Hao's wife, Ah Yin, was actually a hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor who had taken human form and begun cultivating anew.
"To think Tang Hao really did take Ah Yin out of Sunset Forest."
Ning Fengzhi gently waved his folding fan. As it opened and closed, he lowered his voice, afraid of disturbing the people below.
"When Senior