Without waiting for their introductions, Song Xiangdong began to ask questions first.
"I heard there are three of you, why are only two here?"
"Where is the third person?"
"Must all three of you arrive, and meet at the same time, for the destination to truly take effect?"
Song Xiangdong asked while looking at Fu Daoyi.
Song Xiangdong did not know much about this ancient pathfinding method, and had only learned a little from Fu Daoyi.
"Indeed, all three routes must converge together, following the guidance of the Jade Token. Only then will this be the final destination. Not one can be absent!"
Fu Daoyi explained this pathfinding method.
He was also very shocked, not expecting that the Pathfinders from the Celestial Master’s Mansion would end up at the Safehouse. He had thought they would go to the other two commercial outposts in the North China Region.
One of which has significant connections to Daoism, being the last business location of an apprentice to the Celestial Master who left ancient texts.
To this end, Fu Daoyi personally went to investigate, asking if there were any methods left to resolve the crisis of the Celestial Master’s Mansion stone statue.
But no method to resolve the crisis was found.
Still, it was better than the Safehouse, as Fu Daoyi felt that Song Xiangdong had already deviated from Daoism. In his generation, the tradition had already faded significantly, not to mention leaving any secret hints.
Even Daoist culture itself, Song Xiangdong had almost entirely forgotten, or had very little contact with since childhood. Perhaps in a few years, the North China Region contact point would remove the Safehouse from its list.
Song Xiangdong and Fu Daoyi exchanged a glance, both had made their decisions.
With no immediate sign of the third Pathfinder arriving, they decided to take the two who had arrived to stay at the Safehouse lodge.
Soon, Xu Zhenxiao, the Supervisor of the three military regions, hastily ended his inspection tours and arrived at the Safehouse.
The three gathered in a secret chamber to discuss the anomaly of the Celestial Master’s Mansion stone statue.
Fu Daoyi and Xu Zhenxiao both focused their attention on Song Xiangdong.
"Xiangdong, you really need to recall if your father or any relatives involved in Daoism left any clues or said any obscure words to you."
"Although two out of three have arrived, it confirms that the Safehouse is the final contact point for this mission."
"The ancients often passed down teachings orally. Since the Safehouse is determined as the final contact point, the method of resolving the crisis must also come from the Safehouse!"
"Xiangdong, think carefully!"
"This concerns the entire situation, the impact of which we don’t need to elaborate on."
"No matter what you remember, you should speak it out so we can analyze it."
"Maybe it’s something you didn’t understand at the time, a riddle, a word, a painting, an artifact..."
"I know nothing!"
Faced with the two elders’ inquiries, Song Xiangdong was completely at a loss.
Having interrogated a lifetime of suspects, Song Xiangdong felt like he was the suspect being interrogated by the two elders today.
Regarding ancient texts and ways to resolve the crisis, Song Xiangdong had no idea.
As for any obscure instructions left by Daoist relatives and friends, Song Xiangdong tried hard to recall several times, but ultimately shook his head, having no clue at all.
He even doubted if there was some mistake!
"The Celestial Master of the Mansion did have some means hundreds of years ago, able to perceive the Yin and Yang of the world, foreseeing some events."
"If no ancient texts were left, it’s very likely that through divination, it was determined that the Safehouse would resolve this crisis."
"Some divinations reveal secrets that cannot be directly spoken or written down. I think choosing the Jade Token for guidance was a way to obscurely indicate the results of the divination!"
"Ultimately, the crisis of the Celestial Master’s Mansion stone statue would be resolved using the Safehouse as the remedy!"
Xu Zhenxiao explained, stroking his beard.
His guess was not without reason.
It came from nearly eighty years of studying Daoist culture and the secrets he had enlightened from it.
Although much had been lost over the years, transferred multiple times,
"Divination?"
"If that’s the case, and it’s determined that the Safehouse would resolve this crisis, but I have no clue at all!"
Song Xiangdong was confused. The burden on his shoulders caught him unprepared.
Originally, he thought he had faded out of Daoist tradition, and the final destination should have been at other Daoist-related sites in the North China region.
Why did it end up being his place?
Hundreds of years ago, when the tradition was prosperous, Celestial Masters and disciples of the Mansion indeed had some extraordinary means, able to understand secrets of the past and future.
It could be passed down for a thousand more years until peaceful times when the tradition gradually faded from people’s sight.
This time, the guidance of the Jade Token bypassed the constraints of rules and order, pointing out the fated outcome in advance.
Seeing Song Xiangdong’s completely clueless reaction, Fu Daoyi and Xu Zhenxiao were not overly surprised.
They hadn’t counted on finding clues left by previous Celestial Masters along this Safehouse route.
If the final destination was chosen as the Safehouse, there must be a causality, possibly relying on people or circumstances to resolve the crisis.
Not by any remaining methods but by human affinity, opportunities, and coincidence!