Gongshu Bai was the young cultivator from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven who had once sought a Dragon Pearl from Youyun Pavilion in vain, only to obtain one with Xu Taiping's help and save Thousand Mechanisms City in Mysterious Wasteland Heaven from fire and flood.
He was also the son of Thousand Mechanisms City's old city lord.
"City Lord, the life-and-death struggle between Daoist Taiping and Su Chan will be decided in an instant. By the time we find their location in the ruins of Outer Heaven, I fear it will already be too late."
Though he, too, had remembered those past events in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower and was equally willing to rescue his benefactor Xu Taiping at any cost, Gongshu Bai did not agree with the old city lord's approach.
The old city lord hesitated at his words.
For, as Gongshu Bai had said, that expanse of chaotic ruins in Outer Heaven was vast. With the means currently available to Thousand Mechanisms City, calling the search for Xu Taiping and Su Chan's exact location a search for a needle in the sea was no exaggeration.
Just then, Gongshu Nanxing, who stood to one side, gazed deeply at Xu Taiping in the Spirit Mirror projection before her, then suddenly turned toward the old city lord and said with utter resolve in her eyes:
"Old City Lord, I have a plan."
The old city lord turned toward Gongshu Nanxing with great curiosity.
"What plan?"
Gongshu Nanxing's sharp gaze fell on the map of Mysterious Wasteland Heaven hanging on the hall's wall. Then she pointed at the demon grotto nearest Thousand Mechanisms City on the map and said:
"Deploy the firepower of Thousand Mechanisms City's nine martial armories, storm the Red Silk Demon Grotto with the speed of thunder before anyone can cover