After leaving the Holy City, Leng Guhan hurried back as fast as he could.
When he found Xuan Yuanjun and told him what had happened to his master, everyone fell silent.
This was the worst possible outcome, one none of them had wanted to contemplate before.
Yet it had happened all the same.
"Senior Xuanyuan, what should we do now? We have to save Senior Immortal Alchemist," Huang Xiao said.
Leng Guhan had not yet returned to the island, so Zuo Qiu Shu still knew nothing about this.
After learning of it, none of them even had the heart to work on breaking the formation.
"How do we save him?" Huo Lian said. "Do you know where the Longevity Daoist is?"
Huang Xiao's expression darkened.
Indeed, they did not even know where the Longevity Daoist was.
"Could we start with Du Mei and Xu Zhiru?" Zhao Yunhui asked. "If we could capture those two..."
Before she could finish, Xuan Yuanjun shook his head. "Leaving aside how difficult it would be to capture those two, even if we did, they probably wouldn't know where the Longevity Daoist is. The Longevity Daoist always contacts them through puppets he controls. Like Gu Chengfei, they merely follow orders. They have no way of learning much else."
"Then what do we do?" Huo Lian asked with a slight frown. "Without the Immortal Alchemist, breaking the formation will be much harder for us."
For a moment, Xuan Yuanjun did not know how to answer.
Without Zuo Qiu Yi, their progress in breaking the formation would certainly suffer considerably.
He had originally hoped Zuo Qiu Yi would perform astonishingly well in breaking the formation. Now it seemed that wish would be difficult to fulfill.
"Does what happened to Senior Immortal Alchemist mean our earlier guess was right?