The Red-Clad Woman watched Shi Chun refusing to let go of Li Hongjiu in the Mirror Projection and replied slowly through voice transmission, "No hurry. Let's watch a little longer."
As she spoke, she glanced toward Wei Mo.
Seeing Her Ladyship's attitude, A-Lan could only continue watching.
Out at sea, the Eastern Victory contingent received Wei Mo's message and learned that Shi Chun had fled with Li Hongjiu. Alarmed, they swiftly called to one another and charged into the spreading mist, shouting as they searched.
But there was no response from the boundless sea of fog. For a while, they could not even find the two Heavenly Immortal experts.
Wei Mo's face darkened when he received their reply. He knew full well what this mission meant to him. Landing such an assignment was both misfortune and opportunity. As Right Assistant Marquis Jia Huan had put it, he was serving Her Ladyship directly, and afterward, he would have to report to her in person.
Whether he appeared before Her Ladyship as a useless good-for-nothing or a man of outstanding ability depended entirely on the final outcome.
Especially now that things had come to this-if he could capture someone whom several Heavenly Immortal Realm experts had failed to catch, even a few casual words about it before Her Ladyship would make her regard him in a new light.
Though the situation was unfavorable, viewed from another angle, it was actually his opportunity.
So he held nothing back. He swiftly informed the relevant personnel of the direction in which Shi Chun and Li Hongjiu had escaped, ordered them to give chase, and urgently summoned more experts.
Apart from a few men left behind to search, the entire Eastern Victory contingent at sea shot out of the dark clouds in pursuit.
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