The Dragon Master was furious beyond control and roared, "Who the hell is behind this!!!"
'Who would target the entire Vidyadhara tribe like this?!'
Both Bailu's maid, Yuanli, and the messenger who came to report trembled under the Dragon Master's rage.
After hearing the report, Jing Yuan also frowned deeply.
At first, he thought this was a kidnapping case targeting the Vidyadhara Dragon Lord specifically.
But unexpectedly, it turned out to be a kidnapping aimed at the entire Vidyadhara tribe.
If the missing Vidyadhara had come to harm, the whole tribe might lose their minds.
After all, they couldn't reproduce, their population could never grow.
And each year, quite a few Vidyadhara still died due to accidents.
It could be said that the number of Vidyadhara was slowly decreasing year by year.
Under these circumstances, every single Vidyadhara was incredibly precious.
And now, so many had gone missing all at once, including the Dragon Lord herself.
The fact that the Dragon Master hadn't already ordered the Vidyadhara to scour the entire Luofu for them was already him giving face to the Cloud Knights, to Jing Yuan, and to the Xianzhou Alliance.
Just as Jing Yuan was considering where the culprit might be hiding, a hazy voice echoed beside his ears, "From me it begins…"
"To me it returns…"
Jing Yuan froze for a moment, then abruptly looked up toward the outside.
From the direction of Starskiff Haven, an arrow shot into the sky and exploded high above, even higher than the artificial sun.
An invisible ripple swiftly spread across every corner of the Luofu.
The moment Phantylia, who was with Dan Shu, sensed something unusual, her brows furrowed tightly.
She raised her head toward the sky, from that arrow, she sensed a strong, dangerous aura.
And that sense of danger only grew stronger with every passing second.
Realizing something was wrong, Phantylia grabbed Dan Shu, the one useful to her, and vanished from the Medicine King's secret base.
Only the ordinary alchemists were left standing there in confusion.
In the void, a single flower bloomed, soothing their restless hearts and making them momentarily stop their work.
In Jing Yuan's line of sight, pink crystal flowers began to bloom at the treetops outside.
In the sky, on the ground, inside houses, outside buildings...
Countless flower buds appeared everywhere, then opened into dazzling blossoms.
A sweet fragrance spread throughout the Luofu realm.
It was like…
The sickly sweet scent of love.
The citizens, who had been fearful because of the large-scale deployment of the Cloud Knights, now looked on in curiosity at the strange scene before them.
Children even reached out to touch the flowers, though their parents quickly pulled them back.
Still, some mischievous child managed to touch a blossom while the adults weren't watching, and the flower merely shifted its position and continued blooming.
Watching the changes sweeping across the Luofu, Fu Xuan's brows furrowed.
"I didn't predict this… again! Didn't predict it again! Where the hell are these people even coming from!"
The mysterious powerhouse who had massacred the Disciples of the Sanctum Medicus yesterday, and now this barrier enveloping the Luofu today, Fu Xuan hadn't seen either of these in her divinations.
It was as if these people had just appeared out of nowhere.
And in the entire universe, there was no record of them at all.
"Could this be… the limit of divination itself…" Fu Xuan muttered to herself.
Divination in the Luofu was different from those tales where one could "see" the future.
Here, divination was the calculation of the most likely future.
By gathering and analyzing all known information, then feeding it into the Matrix of Prescience to simulate outcomes, they could compute what was most likely to occur.
With the vast processing power and information resources supporting it, the Matrix of Prescience's accuracy rate had been 100% up to this point.
If the intelligence was sufficient, Fu Xuan was confident she could even divine something about the Aeons themselves.
But now, that confidence had been utterly shaken.
Two incidents in a row.
Two major incidents in the Luofu she had completely failed to foresee.
How was the Grand Diviner of the Divination Commission supposed to hold her head up now?
Standing in the center of the Matrix of Prescience, Fu Xuan drooped her eyes. All the other diviners around her could tell that their Grand Diviner was in a foul mood.
"Ah!"
Suddenly, a loud cry echoed throughout the Divination Commission. Hearing the familiar voice, Fu Xuan's eyes snapped open like a starving tiger spotting prey, glaring murderously at Qingque.
The diviners sitting near Qingque immediately got up and moved away, but Qingque herself remained cheerfully in her seat, shouting excitedly.
"Qingque… what are you so happy about?"
Turning her head, Qingque met Fu Xuan's deadly gaze without a care, proudly raising the sheet of paper in her hand.
"Lady Fu Xuan! I did it! I divined it!" she said, excitedly.
Fu Xuan's fierce expression froze. She quickly strode over and snatched the paper from Qingque's hands.
Looking at the divination result written on it, she immediately activated the Matrix of Prescience and ran a simulation based on Qingque's findings.
The result showed that Qingque had indeed divined the most likely location of the missing Dragon Lord.
"Qingque…"
Fu Xuan stared at the excited Qingque, her expression complicated and speechless.
Even with the Matrix of Prescience, she hadn't been able to pinpoint Bailu's exact location, yet Qingque had managed to divine a precise one on her own.
'As expected of the one I had high hopes for!'
Fu Xuan was very satisfied with Qingque's performance.
She snapped a picture of Qingque's divination result and sent it to Jing Yuan. "The divination result is in. The location written here is where the Dragon Lord is most likely to be."
Seeing Fu Xuan send the news to Jing Yuan, Qingque also pulled out her phone to contact Levi, telling him that there was news about Bailu so he wouldn't worry.
But she discovered she couldn't reach him.
Even when she tried calling his jade token, it automatically disconnected after a few seconds.
Hearing the busy tone in her ear, Qingque immediately sensed something was very wrong.
Her friend had acted recklessly again.
"Qingque, this mission's credit belongs to you. If there's any reward you want, just name it," Fu Xuan said with growing satisfaction, reaching out to pat her on the shoulder.
Whoosh!
Fu Xuan's hand froze in midair, Qingque's figure had already vanished before her eyes.
"Lady Fu Xuan! My friend might be in danger! I'm going ahead!"
Watching Qingque dash away at high speed in the distance, Fu Xuan quietly withdrew her hand.
And that friend of Qingque's?
The answer was, of course, Levi.
After all, aside from him, everyone else she only called her Celestial Jade buddies.
At the same time, the Matrix of Prescience began to stir once more.
The surrounding formation started to rotate, endless streams of information flowing through it,
and finally condensed into two words, Levi.
Seeing this change, Fu Xuan's brows furrowed tightly again.
'Why would the Matrix of Prescience suddenly display the name of Qingque's friend?'
Fu Xuan couldn't understand why the Array would produce such an unrelated name.
No, perhaps not completely unrelated.
She glanced at the jade token in her hand.
When she'd just contacted Jing Yuan, she had also learned something else.
Levi had gone missing as well, and was currently listed as the prime suspect, with a huge bounty placed on his head.
"Could it be that Qingque's friend… was the mastermind behind this whole incident?"
Fu Xuan thought for a moment, then stood once again in the center of the Matrix of Prescience, arms folded before her chest.
"Then let me divine this once more…"
She closed her eyes, and the Matrix of Prescience began to spin again.
———
"Levi! Levi! Levi! Levi! Don't you dare run off too fast!"
In the streets filled with Cloud Knights, Qingque, a small, slim diviner, darted through the crowds.
Because of her status as a diviner, the Cloud Knights didn't treat her like an ordinary civilian and send her home.
They just let her rush around wildly through the streets.
"..."