Use One Enemy to Defeat Another

As his uncle’s voice faded, the light remaining in the voice-transmission talisman quickly dimmed as well.

Baek Cheong looked down at the talisman crumbling into ash in their hand, then immediately prepared to use a Grade-A voice-transmission talisman.

Just as they were about to ask someone to find and stop Cheongmu, Baek Cheong froze with their hand over the talisman.

‘It’s too late to send it now.’

It took a couple of shichen for a Grade-A voice-transmission talisman to fly from Hosan to Cheonnam Immortal City.

The message that had just arrived must have been sent by their uncle a couple of shichen ago.

Cheongmu had left Yeonha at least a couple of shichen earlier, and by now it was impossible to guess how far the spirit beast had traveled from the water gate.

By the time their uncle received Baek Cheong’s message, gathered people, and set out in pursuit, another couple of shichen would have passed.

Normally, Baek Cheong could have asked the clan to find out where Cheongmu had gone along the waterway.

But finding Cheongmu now was no simple matter of chasing down a spirit beast that had left the water gate...