Bait

Many days had passed and they still hadn't returned, nor had there been any news. She was worried that something might have happened to them on their way home. 

Taking advantage of the night, she left the city and flew through the night on her sword. As she flew further and further away from Cardinal Point City, she felt a movement of the transmission jade token in space. 

When she took it out, she saw that it was a distress message from Du Fan. Her eyes sank at that moment. She sped away to the location on the jade token in the hopes that she would get there as soon as possible. 

Du Fan and the others wouldn't send out a distress signal no matter how serious the situation was, because they felt that if they as her subordinates didn't have the ability to protect themselves and had to ask their Master for help, then what use did they have?