"Patriarch Feng?" You You was taken aback for a moment, then quickly pulled Feng Rong down from the tree. "Good evening! What brings you here?"
"Sect Master, I came here specifically to find you." Feng Yu bowed, glanced at her, then looked at Feng Rong, a glint of something flashing in his eyes, and said urgently, "Ling Qi just came to inform us that something seems to have happened to the disciples who went out for training, and he is looking for you!"
"What?" You You exclaimed in surprise, "What happened?"
"I didn't hear him explain in detail before I rushed to find the sect leader..." Feng Yu shook his head.
"I'll head back to the main peak first!"
"But I haven't finished speaking..." Feng Rong said anxiously, but You You had already turned and left. He frowned, turned his head and gave Feng Yu a sharp look before quickly catching up with him.
As soon as they entered the main hall, they saw Ling Qi looking anxious, with Yuan Qi sitting beside him, his expression unusually grave. Upon seeing You You enter, Ling Qi immediately rushed forward to greet him, "Sect Master, you've finally arrived!"
"Feng Yu said something happened to the disciples who were undergoing training. What happened?" You You asked hurriedly.
Ling Qi's expression darkened further, and he explained directly, "Starting this morning, more than half of the disciples who went out for training did not respond to the communication talismans. At first, I thought it was because something had delayed them, thus delaying their reports. But they haven't replied all day today. Then I went to the Spirit Hall to check the disciples' soul tablets, and found..." He directly handed over a soul tablet engraved with a disciple's name.
Youyou took the artifact and examined it closely. She saw a crack running through the entire artifact, as if it were about to shatter at any moment. Her eyes widened in shock. "What...what's going on?"
“Every disciple in the sect has a soul tablet with a drop of the other person’s blood on it. This tablet can directly reflect the physical condition of the disciple. Now that it has cracked, I’m afraid…” Ling Qi’s brows furrowed instantly, and he clenched his fists, saying, “This disciple must have suffered a life-threatening injury.”
"What about the other disciple?" You You asked anxiously. "Weren't the people who went out for training in pairs? Has the other disciple in his pair made contact?"
"No!" Ling Qi shook his head. "It's not just him; we can't contact the other groups of disciples either. There are more than a dozen disciples in total!"
"Where are these people now? There should be records of the places they went to, right? Can you find their locations?" Youyou continued to ask.
Ling Qi's expression grew even heavier. He shook his head and said, "Too many disciples have gone missing. Their training grounds are in different locations. For the time being... we don't know exactly which location had the incident, or if there's a problem at all of them." Moreover, even if we send people to investigate now, the situation is urgent, and there isn't enough time to confirm each one individually.
Youyou gripped the soul tablet in her hand and looked at the person with the highest cultivation level beside her, "Yuan Qi, do you have any method to track their location?"
“I tried to track their communication talismans.” Yuan Qi frowned and shook his head, “but to no avail. The communication talismans on their bodies must have been destroyed.”
"What should we do then?" You Youjia asked anxiously. "Isn't there any other way?"
"I'll do it!" Feng Rong suddenly stepped forward and took the soul tablet from her hand, saying, "If you can't track the communication talisman, you can use the essence blood on this soul tablet to directly track the location of the other party's primordial spirit."
"You?" Youyou hesitated. If Yuan Qi, a god, couldn't do it, could the little turkey, who was only at the Nascent Soul stage, be okay?
Yuan Qi was taken aback, then nodded as if he had thought of something. "His bloodline techniques... are indeed worth a try."
Youyou then let go of her hand and couldn't help but add, "Then I'll trouble you to give it a try."
Feng Rong made a hand seal and gripped the soul tablet in his hand. The next moment, a light seemed to flash on his forehead, and his whole body was enveloped by some kind of aura. It didn't look like spiritual energy, but it had a strangely familiar feeling.
Before she could think it through, Feng Rong had already opened her eyes and said in a deep voice, "In the east, about a thousand miles away."
“East…” Ling Qi quickly opened the booklet and started searching. “I remember there are several groups of disciples training in the east. It should be Taogui Town, which is a thousand miles away. The people who went there are…”
He suddenly paused, his eyes widening sharply.
"What! Who went there?"
Ling Qi then raised his head and replied, "Sect Master...it's Lin Feng!"
You You's heart sank, and she immediately said, "Yuan Qi, Feng Yu, the sect is in your hands now. Feng Rong, Ling Qi, let's go!" After saying that, she grabbed Feng Rong beside her and walked out.
She hadn't mastered sword control and couldn't even control herself. To prevent herself from flying off to the wrong place and wasting time, she could only step onto Feng Rong's sword. After thinking for a moment, she also pulled Ling Qi up, and the three of them squeezed onto one sword.
Feng Rong paused for a moment, glancing at Ling Qi with some disdain, but considering the urgency of the situation, she didn't object. She immediately mobilized her spiritual energy and flew away at top speed, instantly disappearing into the horizon.
"Sect Master!" Ling Qi dutifully continued flipping through his booklet, reporting as he flew, "The place Lin Feng went to for training is a small town called Taogui. The people there asked our sect for help, saying that there were fourth-tier demonic beasts causing trouble nearby, so they sent Lin Feng and Yin Fan to subdue them."
"Yin Fan went too?!" You You was taken aback.
“Yes!” Ling Qi nodded. “Lin Feng and Yin Fan are the most powerful Foundation Establishment disciples. Logically, with them around, a fourth-tier demonic beast shouldn’t be in trouble. I just don’t know why this disciple with the unusual soul tablet is here.”
“That goes without saying…” Feng Rong suddenly interjected, “They must have realized that something was wrong with them, or received a request for help, which is why they went there, only to fall into their trap themselves, and perhaps there was more than one disciple.”
“You mean…” Ling Qi was startled.
Feng Rong's expression darkened further. "When I sensed that soul tablet just now, I also detected several other familiar auras, which should belong to other disciples in the sect. If I'm not mistaken... someone used Lin Feng and the others as bait to lure other disciples there. Those disciples who have lost contact might... be there."
Ling Qi gasped, somewhat surprised. "But...that's impossible! Apart from today, they've been reporting back to the sect every day using communication talismans, and there's been nothing unusual."
"It's just a communication talisman..." Feng Rong said in a deep voice, "There are plenty of ways to cover it up, and besides, aren't we all out of contact now?"
"Then wouldn't they be..."
“Although we don’t know who captured them, now that we’ve discovered it, either the other party has already decided to kill them, or… something has happened that even those who captured them couldn’t have anticipated or controlled.” Feng Rong’s expression became unusually serious. “In any case, their situation is not optimistic!”
As soon as he finished speaking, You You and Ling Qi both turned pale.
"Quickly, we have to get there right now!"
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