Yu Shixian had a point. Even if the opponents could not pose any real threat for the moment, Fang Qianyuan could not leave them unchecked. He would have to deal with them eventually.
After returning, he immediately set things in motion.
The next day, in the woods outside the Fang Residence.
The Zuo brothers, who had been taking turns watching him, suddenly saw Fang Qianyuan ride out of his residence in a hurry on White Wolf, heading straight toward the Artifact Hall.
Over these past days, what they had witnessed themselves, together with the intelligence their sect had provided, had given them some understanding of the Azure Cloud Sect's Headquarters. A single glance was therefore enough for them to roughly guess where Fang Qianyuan intended to go.
The area around the Artifact Hall had always been a focus of their surveillance. If Fang Qianyuan went there, he might be going to inspect the Refining Furnace or exchange treasures with people from the Heavenly Craft Institute.
They might uncover relevant clues there.
"Let's follow him!"
Zuo Da hurriedly recorded a message in a Memo Talisman, then formed the Hand Seal of Presence and summoned a strange, fist-sized, beetle-like insect. After having it swallow the talisman, he guided the void shadow shrouded by the Concealment Immortal Veil and followed.
This insect was a rare species known as the Void-Devouring Insect, capable of devouring the void and traveling between realms.
In short, it was a Space Dao insect that lived in the cracks of the Void Boundary, much like termites in rotten wood. It fed on decaying, collapsing space, drawing the Power of Void from it. Given sufficient numbers and time, these insects could literally hollow out an entire grotto-heaven and eat it away.
However, these insects were now on the brink of