"You mean the storybook disappeared without any explanation?"
Su Jiu nodded. "Obviously, the storybook simply disappeared without any explanation."
Yun Huanling rubbed his chin and frowned. "What a shame. That female cultivator got ahead of us and snatched the book. Otherwise, if we'd had it in our hands, we might have figured out what was going on."
Su Jiu shook her head. "Timing and fate."
Yun Huanling curled his lip. "She deserved it. She just had to snatch it-and snatched her own life away!"
At that point, Yun Huanling suddenly found the subject rather dull. He took two gold-embossed cards with black lettering from his Storage Ring and waved them before Su Jiu.
"Invitation letters. While you were away, a guard from the City Lord's Residence delivered them in person."
Su Jiu glanced at them but did not reach out to take them. Instead, she said quietly, "In that case, let's go see for ourselves."
Meanwhile, in the rear courtyard of the City Lord's Residence, a girl with dignified features was confronting a boy.
"How dare you!" The girl's fury nearly burst through the top of her head.
The boy, however, looked utterly unconcerned. "What did I do?"
The girl hurled the booklet in her hand at his face, immediately leaving a red mark.
He finally put away his flippant expression, replacing it with an exceedingly sinister look.
Yet the girl was not frightened by it. She continued, "You have the nerve to ask what you did? What did we agree on back then? We would only take the souls of people steeped in evil. What are you doing now?"
As she spoke, she picked up the booklet that had fallen to the ground. Flipping through it, she pointed at one person. "This one from the temple was called