Wu Nai had gone into seclusion—Xiao Hua had learned this the moment he returned to the Thunder Control Sect. Yet Xiao Hua had never thought to visit the place where Wu Nai was in seclusion! Perhaps he had been too busy—he had gone straight to Great Thunder Hall upon returning, and before he could finish telling Xiang Zhili and the others about the amusing incidents of the Dao Sword Great Battle after returning to Myriad Thunder Valley, he had been forced to leave the Thunder Control Sect. After returning to the sect, before he could rest in his cave dwelling, he had immediately gone up Thunder Competition Ground with the Dry Thunder Palace disciples. Mere days after Thunder Competition Ground, after only guiding Wu Qing and the others in their cultivation, he had once again been punished by Great Thunder Hall and sent into seclusion. Then, during that seclusion, Myriad Thunders Annihilation had occurred, until today, when Great Thunder Hall expelled him from the Thunder Control Sect! One matter after another had linked together like a wild storm of wind and rain.
But did Xiao Hua truly lack the time to visit where Wu Nai was in seclusion? It was within the Thunder Control Sect, near Myriad Thunder Valley—how far could it be? Half an hour would have been enough, right? How could Xiao Hua not have had half an hour to spare? At the very least, could he not have asked where Wu Nai was in seclusion? Yet he had done none of those things! Only now, with merely three hours remaining, did he think of the teacher who mattered most to him in the Thunder Control Sect!
It was not that Xiao Hua had forgotten. There was a resistance in his heart, a fear that made him unwilling