Gao Yang lowered his head and bowed with his hands clasped. "Hall Master."
Xia Jue's gaze flickered as he looked at Gao Yang, then he said coolly, "Take some people and search outside the city."
He watched Gao Yang's retreating figure.
A chill gradually seeped into Xia Jue's eyes. He casually picked up a scrap of clothing from the ground, devoid of any lingering aura, and closed his eyes. It had been sliced off by Divine Sense given physical form.
Then he opened his eyes again and thought, There are some things my junior sister would probably prefer to settle with her own hands.
Over the next two months, sure enough, not a single trace of Su Jiu could be found in Jade Sun City. She had vanished without a trace.
Every so often, Xia Jue tried to locate Su Jiu with the Sound-Mixing Bell, but the bell gave no response either.
Xia Jue suspected that his junior sister had very likely fallen into some sealed space again.
Meanwhile, after Yun Huanling and Yun Chao left Jade Sun City, they immediately went to the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect to request reinforcements. The round trip took over another month. By the time they arrived, the Zheng Household's territory had long since fallen into the Yu Household's hands, and Su Jiu had already been missing for some time.
Yun Huanling performed a divination for Su Jiu. Although he could not determine her exact location, he could still tell that she was alive. Yun Huanling returned to the Heavenly Secret Sect, while Yun Chao continued purging the Demonic Cultivators of the Spiritflight Continent with his fellow disciples from the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect.
As for the altar, just as Xia Jue had expected, those Demonic Cultivators probably realized that they had stirred up