After the gurgling continued for quite some time, Yue Wen still failed to make out anything else. The scene before his eyes abruptly shifted, returning him to the Black-Gold Great Hall.
A wave of mental exhaustion immediately washed over him, like the weariness of having toiled for days.
The divination was over.
Yue Wen recalled what he had just seen and heard. There had not been much information, only seawater. What kind of guidance was that?
Did it mean his parents had met with disaster and been sunk into the sea, or that they were currently somewhere deep underwater? They were not fish. If they were living on the seabed, there was probably only one place that could accommodate them.
The Dragon Hall.
Combined with the East Sea Dragon Hall's previous interference in his parents' case, this fully supported Yue Wen's conjecture.
There might be a faction within the Dragon Hall that was colluding with the Demon Race in some capacity. For unknown reasons, it had targeted his parents all the way over in River City and kidnapped them with the Demon Race's help.
Judging by the underwater guidance, his parents might very well be inside the East Sea Dragon Hall right now.
This faction might hold an important position in the East Sea, but it certainly could not control everything. Otherwise, it would not need to resort to these sneaky little schemes.
His parents were merely two ordinary scholars. If anything about them could have attracted the attention of people in the Dragon Hall, it might only be the research projects they had participated in before.
Taking into account the card his father had previously left him, this most likely had something to do with Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb.
And inside Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb, there happened to be