Just as Murong Qiuhan was about to circulate her true essence and activate her cultivation art, a Flying Fish Token from Penglai Palace arrived at the cave dwelling where she was staying.
She rose and received the transmission, then sent her Spiritual Sense into it.
"Demon Extermination Secret Order! The Dao Academy has found another lead!"
Murong Qiuhan immediately turned solemn. After carefully reading through the secret order, she skillfully destroyed it, then transformed into a stream of crimson-black water and quietly departed from the cave dwelling.
Following the instructions in the secret order, Murong Qiuhan left the Water Camp through an underwater trench passage, heading straight toward the Demonic Sea to the south.
Two days later, she followed the trench passage to a concealed hideout.
Several illusion formations concealed the hideout both inside and out. It was a temporary foothold Penglai Palace had prepared within the Sea of Ten Thousand Demons for righteous-path cultivators.
As one of the righteous path's foremost powers, Penglai Palace had begun preparing for a rainy day long ago, continuously making arrangements and placing pieces throughout the Sea of Ten Thousand Demons.
Hideouts like this were merely one of their many prepared measures. They would be abandoned after a single use, lest the Demonic Dao follow the vine to find the melon and discover their routes of infiltration beneath the sea.
Following the contents of the secret order, Murong Qiuhan cast three consecutive incantation seals, opening a passage through the illusion formation before her.
After entering, she saw that four people had already arrived at the hideout ahead of her.
She was fairly familiar with two of them. Both were dragon-descendant cultivators possessing dragon bodies, and after coming to Penglai Palace, they had crossed hands with her several times.
In the beginning, she had lost