Within Huanghua Ridge, atop Minsi Peak, Jiang Fan swept out with his divine sense and already knew that his disciples had returned empty-handed. After the disciple made his report, he said coldly, "Xiao Hua is only a child who has just advanced to the Qi Cultivation second layer. His flight speed is so slow, yet you—more than a dozen at the sixth layer of Qi Cultivation—spent an entire afternoon, several hours, and still failed to catch him?"
"This disciple was foolish. We estimated his flight speed and searched ahead along that route. Later, when we saw something was wrong, we split up and searched every inch of the area within a hundred li, but found no trace of him."
"You are certain you searched everywhere that needed searching?" Jiang Fan asked coldly.
"Yes, Young Sect Master. He had only been gone for an hour at most, so he could not have gone more than a few hundred li. The disciples were far faster than he was. There was no reason we should not have found him!" The disciple was deeply puzzled.
"Hmph, what do you mean, no reason? Haven't you failed to find him now?" Jiang Fan snorted. "He flies slowly, and his direction should have been fixed. How could he have vanished? Where could he have gone?"
"Young Sect Master, that fellow is merely at the Qi Cultivation second layer, his cultivation pitifully low. What use is there in looking for him? If Fairy Xiao finds out, would that not make it difficult for you to explain?"
"Nonsense. It was precisely because I feared upsetting her that I did not seize him in front of her!" From Jiang Fan's tone, he truly treated Xiao Xianrui quite well and was unwilling to cause her the slightest displeasure. "But we know