Shortly after safely arriving in Yuan City, the old knife handle silently disappeared, never to be seen again.
Li Desheng did not leave. The people from the Flickering Light Sacred Land eagerly tried to retain him, and the women from Jade Lake also extended invitations. The underworld eye is almost untrainable; it is an exceptional ability from birth, rarely seen in the world, allowing one to see what ordinary people cannot. All the major powers wanted to draw him in.
In the afternoon, Ye Fan took a short nap, and then walked out of his room, just as Li Desheng also opened his door. Both were staying in the same quiet little courtyard.
In the courtyard, there was a cluster of artificial rocks with a bubbling spring atop. Beside it, a grape trellis hung with clusters of amethyst-like fruits, the green leaves casting cool shade upon the ground below.
