Chapter 1763 — Home at Last!
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The Shadow Group's findings soon reached the Dark Night Palace again. The four had stayed at the town's only small budget hotel, registered under the name "Ling Yi," but through the Shadow Group's intelligence channels, they could not determine this person's specific identity and suspected the name was false.
Wei Zhao's identity as Ling Yi had been fake from the start, so it was only natural the Dark Night Palace couldn't find anything.
What disappointed everyone, however, was not this, but that last night, Ling Yi had rented an induction cooker from the hotel—presumably to cook and eat the black phoenix himself. If four people had shared the black phoenix, the purity of bloodline after eating it would be even less than Wan'er's, and whether they were found or not would be utterly meaningless!
Thus, upon hearing this news, the Grand Elder was deeply disappointed. "It seems now that the game they bought was indeed the legendary Dark Phoenix spirit beast, and when they ate it, some phenomenon may have occurred—but a Dark Phoenix divided among four would no longer pass on its bloodline. There's no point in our searching further."
Everyone fell silent. None was more disappointed than Wan'er. If another inheritor appeared, or if the Dark Phoenix were given to her to consume, she would no longer have to suffer here every day. Once she received the bloodline's awakening and inheritance, she would become the sole master of the Dark Night Palace!
Then the Grand Elder would no longer interfere in her other affairs, and she could go to reunite with Gu Pengzhan and Gu Mengyao!
"Keep searching a while longer—perhaps there's more than one Dark Phoenix; there may be another. Question Wang Laoliu carefully about where he caught it, and we'll send people to lie in wait!" Elder Li instructed the Shadow Group leader.
"Yes..." Though everyone knew the hope was slim, even a sliver of hope was worth having.
Meanwhile, Wei Zhao had already set out with Tang Zhi, Gu Mengyao, and Shen Yushu toward West Star Mountain Village.
A foreboding had settled in Wei Zhao's heart, so he did not rest on the road this time. He drove furiously the whole way, letting Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, and Tang Zhi rest inside the car.
The three did not know the reason and assumed Wei Zhao was simply eager to get home, so they raised no objections. In truth, even if they had, Wei Zhao would not have known how to answer.
After another day and night of hard driving, the destination—West Star Mountain Village—was before them. Because there was no highway nearby, this final stretch was agonizingly slow; otherwise, at Wei Zhao's speed, they would have reached West Star Mountain Village long ago.
"Is this the place? The scenery is so beautiful! Brother Arrow, if your injury hadn't healed last time, we'd have settled down here, right?" Shen Yushu gazed at the green hills and clear waters before her and spoke with envy.