The two of them finished reading all six jade slips, and just as he said, they were all mundane daily records.
There was nothing about the Void Gate.
"According to the timeline, the missing one should be the last slip," Lily Bai said. "It might have the clue to the Void Gate."
Azure Flame nodded and asked Lord Sky Xiao, "Do you have any Clarity Charm recordings of her? We'd like to see what she looks like."
"No," Lord Sky Xiao replied. "But I can draw—I’ll sketch her for you."
"Thank you, Lord Sky Xiao," Lily Bai said.
Lord Sky Xiao picked up a brush and sketched a portrait for them—it was of an average-looking woman.
"Does she have any family?" Azure Flame asked again. "We could use bloodline tracking arts to find her."
"She does!" Lord Sky Xiao said. "She’s from the water clan—her parents and brother are around, and she has plenty of relatives in the Wildlands Sea! She used to talk about them all the time."
After thinking for a moment, he tapped his head and said, "I think she mentioned having a brother who works under the Water Lord in the Wildlands Sea. You could go pay him a visit."
"Why don’t you just give us something of hers directly?" Lily Bai suggested. "It’ll make finding her much faster."
"Sure," Lord Sky Xiao agreed, and searched all around the house. But in the end, he said, "I couldn’t find a single thing of hers here! It’s spotless, like she never even existed!"
"Looks like she really did steal the jade slip," Lily Bai said. "But why would a minor immortal steal something like that?"
Lord Sky Xiao admitted he had no idea either.
"Why did you send her away?"
"My granddaughter came over, and she actually made her feel wronged," Lord Sky Xiao said. "So I kicked her out."
"Then let’s go find her family," Azure Flame smiled. "Thank you so much, Lord Sky Xiao."
"Azure Flame, are you married yet?" Lord Sky Xiao sized her up.
"Who’d dare marry me?" Azure Flame shot back.
"You seem a lot livelier than before. I thought maybe you’d gotten married!"
"I'm working on it," Azure Flame said. "Hopefully I'll get married someday."
"Of course you will," Lord Sky Xiao said. "Just don’t forget to invite me to the wedding!"
"Alright..."
...
They opened the Elderworld passage and arrived in Cangwu, saying they wanted to borrow someone from Divine Lord Tanya Quinn to perform the Ancestral Locator Spell.
Divine Lord Tanya Quinn was very interested in the Void Gate. She wanted to come herself, but since she was pregnant, she lent them Mia Quinn instead.
The three of them went to the Wildlands Sea and asked the local Water Lord about Jean Qiao’s brother.
They found him quickly.
But her brother said that Jean Qiao was already dead.
He said that after Lord Sky Xiao sent her home, she cried every day and was completely lost.
One day, she turned into her true form and wandered the sea in sorrow, only to be eaten by a terrifying sea beast.
Her brother was heartbroken: "She was fine one moment, gone the next—not even a keepsake left behind! Truly..."
Lily Bai glanced at Mia Quinn, who had secretly used the Ancestral Locator Spell. Sure enough, there were no other siblings left in the bloodline.
She really was gone.
Lily Bai asked her brother, "Do you have anything she used before? Anything at all."
It seemed the trail to the seventh jade slip was lost here.
But Lily Bai’s intuition said it wasn’t that simple.
It felt more like someone had erased every trace of her.