"Yu Shun is dead?" Jian Yuan stood on the Void Shuttle, staring in shock and uncertainty at the jade slip flashing incessantly in his hand.
Yu Shun had reached the Body Tribulation stage and had a Void Shuttle to aid him. How could someone have killed him so easily in the second or third city? Had he encountered some unforeseen disaster?
"It's true. Qu Liang said you don't need to look for those three for now. He'll take the Soul-Returning Mirror to investigate what happened to Yu Shun." The jade slip flashed again.
"Whew... Where are Qu Liang and the others? I'll go meet them," Jian Yuan transmitted.
"They're heading to where Yu Shun died, not far from the third city." The jade slip relayed the location from which Yu Shun had sent his final message.
When Jian Yuan followed the information in the jade slip to the road between the second and third cities to search for traces of Yu Shun, he happened to find Qu Liang and the others investigating the area.
"Qu Liang, have you found anything?" Jian Yuan descended from the Void Shuttle and asked.
"Yu Shun stopped here. His aura is present, but it disappears after this point." Qu Liang withdrew the Patrol Spirit Insect in his hand and answered with a grim expression.
Beside him stood three natives of the Supreme Road, all of them at the Heaven-reaching Realm. They had previously been searching with Qu Liang along the road between the second and third cities for a way to open the Heavenly Evolution Divine Stone.
As natives of the Supreme Road, they could not retreat either. Consequently, they each had their own stations and generally did not venture into the next city without good reason.
If something unexpected happened in a city and