After Teng Zhang left, Mu Guyue sat quietly for a while before suddenly taking out a sound-transmission talisman. After murmuring rapidly into it, she flicked her wrist and sent it flying.
Only then did Mu Guyue close the doors of the cave residence and sit back down. By then, her brows were tightly furrowed, her face deep in thought.
"You're worried?"
Suddenly, a voice entered her ears.
Mu Guyue immediately jolted awake from her thoughts and turned toward the sound. She saw Li Yan, dressed in a green robe, emerging from a passage on the other side, his calm gaze fixed on her.
"Oh? You came out of seclusion so quickly. How did your cultivation go?"
Mu Guyue showed no surprise at Li Yan's arrival. So long as Li Yan was not in closed-door seclusion unto death, he should have learned of anything happening here at the first opportunity.
That naturally included her conversation with Teng Zhang just now. The two had not used sound transmission; they had merely spoken quickly and softly, which was more than enough for Li Yan to hear every word clearly.
"Not bad. I've made a little progress. As for the military situation you discussed just now, during all these years of fighting the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beasts, has anything similar ever occurred in other directions? Or had you made any speculations or predictions about it before?"
As Li Yan spoke, he walked over to Mu Guyue's side and sat down in the adjacent stone chair.
He gave only a simple answer to Mu Guyue's question about his cultivation. In Mu Guyue's eyes, now that she herself was already in the Void Refinement Realm, Li Yan had merely improved somewhat.
After all, Li Yan had only been in seclusion for around five years. Such advancement was