Azure Profound Sect, Wonderful Sound Mountain.
"Elder Song, we've searched all the surrounding forests. We found no suspicious individuals."
"What about spirit birds or demonic beasts?"
"If it were a spirit bird or demonic beast, it certainly couldn't fool a Windfeather Wolf's nose."
"But my Bluewater Mirror couldn't have been mistaken about that killing intent."
In the forest, an elderly man with graying hair frowned at a bronze mirror in his hand.
Before him stood a disciple of the Seven Discipline Hall, his face filled with trepidation.
As for the bronze mirror...
What appeared within it was not the elderly man's face, but a vast expanse of blue-green waves.
After studying the water for a long while without finding any larger waves rising or falling, the gray-haired Elder Song finally shook his head and said:
"Perhaps my treasure sensed something incorrectly. Call everyone back."
"Yes!"
The disciple felt as though he had been granted a pardon.
After receiving Elder Song's order, the disciples searching the woods left one after another.
In mere moments, the once-noisy forest returned to deathly silence.
"Good thing I wasn't discovered."
Just then, Bai Yu, concealed on the branch of a large tree in the woods, let out a long breath in imitation of a human.
"But I've already stirred the grass and startled the snake. Looks like I'll have to act tonight."
As it thought this, it drew out a peacock feather with its beak.
Then it lightly tapped the feather with its long beak, and the feather dissolved on its own into scattered motes of light.
At the same time, Bai Yu began transmitting a message in bird language through its divine sense:
"I've found where the Great King is imprisoned. He's at Weary Bird Manor on Wonderful Sound Mountain. Hurry here and assemble