While the others talked, Hongguang kept his gaze fixed on Yun Huanling's Fate Star, performing his calculations the entire time.
The revolving disk spun without pause, and his Compass kept turning along with it.
An hour later, he abruptly stopped what he was doing. Delight flashed in his eyes, but it vanished as quickly as it had appeared, soon replaced by another, more complicated emotion.
Seeing Hongguang stop, the others could not help coming forward to ask, "Well?"
Hongguang parted his lips. "A Ling's Fate Star does indeed retain a thread of hope for survival. However, that thread lies with Su Jiu."
The somewhat noisy crowd fell silent.
Standing at the very back, Lan Fang Ziyi quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Someone could not help asking, "Is A Ling's Fate Pattern now bound to that girl's?"
The expression on Hongguang's face grew even more complicated, and he nodded.
Seeing that Yun Huanling's Fate Pattern was safe, the Yun Household's Fifth Elder began entertaining other ideas. "In that case, why don't we simply... simply go to the Azure Tide Sect and snatch back that girl called Su Jiu to be A Ling's Dao Companion?"
Several elders of the Heavenly Secret Sect turned together to look at the Fifth Elder who had made that astonishing suggestion. This time, Hongguang was not the only one wearing a complicated expression. Everyone from the Heavenly Secret Sect looked at the Fifth Elder with exceedingly complicated expressions.
The Second Elder, who had remained silent all this time, rubbed his nose and said quietly, "Have you misunderstood our strength, or have you misunderstood the Azure Tide Sect's strength?"
Leaving aside the Enforcement Hall and the Shadow Pavilion behind Su Jiu, the old fellows on Cloudmist Peak and those two on Ice Veil Peak alone would give