Central Province, Golden Light Gorge.
A waterfall poured down as though spilling from the heavens, the thunderous crash of its waters raising a thin veil of mist. A great sun shone down, golden light glittering as though gold had been scattered over it.
Bai Xuanling stood beside the waterfall with his arms folded, looking up as he teased:
"Sometimes the world really is unpredictable. Your eldest disciple certainly delivers astonishing surprises. Back when Lü Xuan said your eldest disciple's good fortune rivaled the heavens, I thought he was just shamelessly forcing out praise. Now it seems that brat might really have inherited a little of Heavenly Derivation's true teachings."
Chu Xingchen, also dressed in white robes, sat on a flat rock beside the water. Hearing this, he could only smile helplessly.
After meeting Chu Xingchen, that deputy envoy naturally could no longer escape the Immortal Sects' watch. Even if they could not follow him around the clock, there was more than enough intelligence to learn where he went and whom he met.
After handling some matters concerning A Loving Family, Li Yingling had resumed taking Li Xingtian along to deal with the unattended affairs, giving herself something to do along the way.
What Chu Xingchen was doing now was classified at a level all its own, and for the time being, he was no longer sharing the details with Li Yingling. Yet somehow, through some channel, Li Yingling had actually managed to catch the deputy envoy he had met.
The sheer inexplicability of it made even Chu Xingchen's scalp prickle. All his preparations and waiting over these days had actually amounted to less than a casual arrest by his eldest disciple.
He really had to wonder whether, if he left all this to Li Yingling, she might catch the Black