"Yang Gongyi has gone missing?!"
Wang Ba jolted!
He finally realized what he had felt was missing earlier: Yang Gongyi, the rogue cultivator skilled in beast taming.
Even Bai Chanzhi and the others at the Nascent Soul late stage had made a special trip to hear Elder Zhang Songnian preach the Dao. Yang Gongyi was only an early-stage Nascent Soul rogue cultivator, and he was on good terms with Qu Zhongqiu. By rights, he should have arrived long ago.
He had not thought much of it then, but looking back now, Yang Gongyi had probably gone missing before the assembly began.
"Who on earth did this?"
"Yang Gongyi's cave abode isn't far from the Ghost Market... yet none of us noticed any disturbance. Could a Spirit Transformation cultivator have acted? Or was it some bizarre, uncanny being?"
Qu Zhongqiu's brows knitted tightly.
Ling Weizi pondered briefly, then said, "There's no use talking about it now. Since it isn't far, we might as well go take a look immediately."
"Very well!"
Qu Zhongqiu nodded.
Ling Weizi then turned to Hu Zaixi.
"Old Hu, watch over the assembly here. Don't let anyone disturb Elder Zhang Songnian."
Hu Zaixi said solemnly,
"Don't worry! You all stay safe, too."
Anyone-or any unusual being-capable of abducting an early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator without a sound posed no small danger.
Still, having cultivated to their current realms, Qu Zhongqiu and Ling Weizi were naturally confident men. Ling Weizi shook his head.
"Since this person doesn't dare show himself openly, and the highest-realm cultivator abducted so far was only at the early Nascent Soul stage, I imagine that however strong he may be, he shouldn't have reached Spirit Transformation... As long as he hasn't, Senior Brother Qu and I can go anywhere under heaven together."
His tone was