Chapter 3

Lian song knew why he had been called. so, he had already deployed his spies before going to meet donghua. He was sitting in his study, waiting for him, when he finally turned up.


"you know why you are here, don't you? " donghua asked placing down his tile on the go board.


"I do."


"and what have you done about it?"


"the whole network is looking for her. We will be getting information by this evening, I believe."


The network lian song was talking about is the illustrious spy network of donghua. he had always believed that information won wars more than power. Because if you had information, there was no need to yield weapons. Over time he had inculcated a spy network so deep that it ran in the very veins of all the realms and nobody knew about it. Well, almost nobody. Lian song and si ming were the only ones that knew. This was due to the fact that after his old general, who used to control the network had retired, he had to transform his memory to remove all traces of it. With the general out of commission, he had to find a new general. That's where lian song had come into play. Very few people know about the intellectual and military prowess of lian song. He used his play ways to hide from responsibility but the man was, in reality, a powerhouse. Donghua had always known this and used it to his advantage. He had taken the playboy prince under his wing and cultivated him into a general to be feared and handed him the reins to his spy network. No one had known about this development of the third prince. He had made sure his careless and lazy attitude will be all the people know. And lian song had proven his mettle after all. With time he had grown the network so much that it had started becoming difficult for him to attend to it without attracting notice. Donghua had then added si ming to the mix. He had seen the potential of the small immortal, working the ink. He knew the man was a gossipmonger but if used properly, gossip could yield great results. With si ming under his wing, he had cultivated him the same as lian song. Steadily the young immortal had risen through the ranks. And when he had attained the position of star lord, dong hua had ordained upon him the duty of the spy network. He was to work under lian song and cultivate the network further. But such responsibility cannot be handed over easily. Both the generals had sworn loyalty to donghua and to maintain the secrecy of all operations in a blood oath. And thus far, they had not disappointed him.


"I will expect a report before this evening, then." He said placing his final stone on the board. Lian song looked down and again dong hua had won.


With their impeccable track records, donghua was waiting for an answer. But he was to be disappointed this time. Both his generals had turned up with zero results. the only answer they had, was that it appeared as if bai feng jiu had vanished overnight. They knew she wasn't dead because finding a body is a much easier task and that search has also come up empty. Well of course, dong hua thought, I'll know if she dies, my entire being is connected to her.


With such results, only one possibility is there she had gone to the mortal realm and even then she is continuously moving. Only under that scenario will it be hard for his network to trace her. In the great trichiliocosm, there were billions of mortal worlds. Even if one stayed for a year in each of the worlds, it would take atleast a billion years. He had no idea how long xaio bai intended to stay there but he will comb through each world to find her.


For the next 400 years, he combed through one mortal world after another. Si ming and Zhong lin had been worried about his health but found speaking to him, quite useless. "Dijun had used so much of his cultivation for the little princess that he has started to cough up blood and he had only scanned 400,000 worlds till now. If he doesn't find her soon, he will perish with this task", They thought.


Their worst fears soon came true when Zhong lin went to give him medicine one afternoon and found him comatose in his study.


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