Wei Liang was moving before the council member finished his sentence, questions firing faster than the man could answer them.
"Where," Wei Liang demanded. "This second Void root. Where in the eastern provinces."
"We don't know exactly," the man said quickly, alarmed by the sudden intensity. "Only that Bao Chen's forces have been concentrated there for the past two weeks, far more heavily than anywhere else on your ledger."
Xu's voice cut through sharp and urgent. "If he's already located them, we may already be too late to prevent contact. But if the merging ritual requires preparation, there might still be time to intervene before it's attempted."
"How would such a ritual even work," Liu Che asked, addressing Yuan Bo directly now. "Merging two roots isn't simple cultivation theory. Th
