Xu Qingtong flew with Ding Jiayue and her companion for about a quarter of an hour before arriving outside Zhangdian Town.
The three did not enter the town, stopping instead beneath a large tree outside it. Xu Qingtong spread his divine sense and searched the town, but found no sign of Du Siwen.
"Third Senior Sister and the others haven't arrived yet. Let's stop here for a while and wait for them!" Xu Qingtong said.
He found a clean, shady spot beneath the tree and sat cross-legged, his divine sense constantly sweeping through the town.
There were few people left in the town. The handful who remained were all sallow and emaciated, staying in their homes without opening for business. Xu Qingtong heaved a long inward sigh. This was all the doing of those fiends from Worryfree Valley! For their own selfish ends, they plunged living souls into misery!
At that thought, he remembered his maternal uncle in Li Family Village. If he had not brought his uncle's family away in time, who knew how things might have ended? Once matters here were settled, he needed to help reshape his older female cousin's meridians as soon as possible. If she could cultivate, he would no longer have to worry so much about his uncle.
Noon had already passed, and the sun began to sink westward, yet there was still no sign of his senior sister's party. An inexplicable flutter of panic stirred in Xu Qingtong's heart. He stood and gazed southwest for a while, then sent out his divine sense to investigate, but still found nothing.
Could something have happened to Senior Sister and the others? Why haven't they appeared after so long? The more Xu Qingtong thought about it, the more uneasy he became.
"Jia Yue, I'm going to