After leaving the Black Market, Su Jiu and her companions returned to the inn they had booked during the day.
Faint candlelight glowed inside the inn, with a figure moving beneath it.
Only when the two drew closer did they realize that the innkeeper was still awake.
Seeing Su Jiu and Yun Huanling, the innkeeper exhaled a stale breath, the tension on his face easing somewhat. He murmured, "Looks like they didn't go to the Concealment Stone Vein."
Su Jiu and Yun Huanling exchanged a glance, then returned to their rooms without saying anything.
It seemed the Concealment Stone Vein in Dawn City did hold some secrets.
Su Jiu began meditating as soon as she returned, while Yun Huanling sat on his bed, looking somewhat dazed.
Then he took the jade bracelet he had obtained from the woman while tending his stall out of his robes, a trace of sorrow settling over his face.
He made a hand gesture, and the Compass gradually appeared before him. As Yun Huanling manipulated it, the Compass hung in midair, seemingly flashing with ten thousand rays of starlight.
Yun Huanling drew a wisp of spiritual energy from the bracelet into the Compass. It slowly turned, and a needle Su Jiu had never seen before gradually appeared on its surface. The needle pointed south, toward the Concealment Stone Vein.
Yun Huanling quietly put the jade bracelet away again. Apart from his slightly pale face, it was as though nothing had happened.
In fact, Su Jiu had opened her eyes the moment Yun Huanling began casting his spell on the Compass. Her divine sense far surpassed that of others at the same cultivation level. She could immediately detect any unusual fluctuations of spiritual energy around her. Even without extending her divine sense, her perception alone could