"Still no response."
At the entrance to a tea shop, Xu Taiping, who had already changed his face, frowned at the Communication Jade Slip in his hand while sending a voice transmission to Bai Yu in his mind.
"Then something really must have gone wrong."
Bai Yu's response was grave.
The Communication Jade Slip Xu Taiping was holding was for contacting Dharma Master Chongde, but despite repeated attempts, he had failed to reach him.
Aside from that, he also had a Message Jade Disc on him.
The abbot of Vairocana Temple had given it to him to make keeping in touch easier, but it had shattered seven years ago, for reasons that remained equally unclear.
During those seven years inside the Dragon-Trapping Tower, he had been cultivating in seclusion, and after coming out, he had encountered the great calamity at Tianhai Pass.
So he had never paid much attention to the matter.
After all, as he saw it, given Little Martial Aunt's cultivation and strength, nothing could possibly happen to her in the Imperial Capital.
As for the temples in the Cloud Emergence Kingdom, their abbots were beings capable of fighting the Heavenly Wolf King, so there was even less reason to think anything could happen to them.
More importantly, he had never imagined anyone would go to such lengths to stop him from participating in the Golden Scale Assembly.
But thinking it over carefully now, it was indeed strange that neither Little Martial Aunt nor those abbots of Vairocana Temple had sought him out during those seven years.
"Keep going straight down this street. Once you reach the dead end, knock on the wall three times, wait two breaths and knock three more times, then wait another two breaths and knock six times in succession. Someone will open the