In an upper room belonging to Church personnel.
A middle-aged man in red robes and a young maiden in a pale yellow dress trimmed with gold thread sat by the window, drinking tea and watching bustling Samo City.
Red robes-anyone who dared wear such attire had to be at least the red-robed Archbishop, one of the three Archbishops beneath the Pope.
His name was Yi Lan, the red-robed Archbishop of the New Era Church.
As for the maiden, she looked around thirteen or fourteen. Petite and delicate, she had an impish air about her. Someone who could sit as an equal with a red-robed Archbishop was no ordinary person either.
"Hehe, Holy Maiden Nuo Nuo, your mental power truly is extraordinary. Without your reminder, we might have let him slip away."
"That young man is the visitor from overseas we're looking for."
"But he's very powerful. Even the three Archbishops together might not be his match. He can disguise his appearance with some basic magic alone, which shows how profound his cultivation is. He was right under my nose, yet even I, a red-robed Archbishop, failed to notice."
"Perhaps only His Holiness the Pope could fight him."
The middle-aged man looked in the direction indicated by the maiden's slender, pale finger. His expression grew grave, and then he spoke to her.
The maiden named Nuo Nuo immediately became interested.
She said to Yi Lan, the older man opposite her, "Uncle Yi Lan, is he really that powerful?"
"Only my father could fight him?"
She was the Pope's daughter, Nuo Nuo, the Holy Maiden of the New Era Church.
"Yes. Let's follow him and see what he intends to do," Yi Lan said with a nod.
Watching Yang Tian walk away, he took the maiden beside him along, stirring up a