In the Lower Courtyard of the Heaven Temple in Luoyi, the Silent Chamber of the Moon Palace Hall Master, Baili Fei, was suddenly filled with radiance as the Guardian Barrier rippled, shocking Baili Fei awake.
Imdiately after, a rapid and rhythmic knocking sounded on the door.
This made Baili Fei frown. Although his cultivation had reached the Dao Realm, no matter how busy the hall master’s mundane affairs were, one must engage in silent cultivation and contemplation at night.
Diligent cultivation without rest was one of the secrets to his breakthrough to the Dao Realm.
For this reason, those around him would not disturb him in the deep night unless it was a matter of great urgency.
"What’s the matter?" Baili Fei didn’t get up, only snorted coldly.
"Hall Master, we just received an urgent ssage from the Wei State Branch Temple..."
"Urgent ssage? How big of a matter is it that it can’t wait until tomorrow morning to report?" Before his close disciple could finish, Baili Fei expressed his dissatisfaction.
Outside the door, Baili Fei’s trusted disciple swallowed with difficulty, "Hall Master, it’s a Nine Feathers urgent ssage!"
"Nine Feathers urgent ssage?"
These four words caused Baili Fei’s expression to freeze suddenly, as if he had heard sothing incredible. In the next instant, with a flash of movent, the door of the Silent Chamber swung open, and Baili Fei appeared in front of his trusted disciple standing at the door.
Seeing the Jade Scroll in the disciple’s hand, laden with layers of seals and shimring with nine blood-colored tail feathers, Baili Fei’s expression changed again.
Their Heaven Temple has a long-standing tradition and its own communication system.
The content of the communication varies in urgency and importance, with the Spirit Sculptures on the Jade Scroll ranging from one feather to nine feathers.
But most communication Jade Scrolls are three or four-feathers urgent ssages, receiving one or two five-feathers urgent ssages a year was rare, let alone a nine-feathers urgent ssage. Even an eight-feathers urgent ssage hasn’t been seen in hundreds of years.
However, the Heaven Temple has been having so bad luck recently. Four months ago, they received a nine-feathers urgent ssage, that ti, it was the massacre of the Shahe City Branch Temple.
And today, he received another nine-feathers urgent ssage, what earth-shattering event is happening again?
Inexplicably, Baili Fei’s heart trembled. In the next instant, Baili Fei’s Divine Sense broke through the layers of seals on the Jade Scroll and delved into this Nine Feathers urgent ssage.
In that mont of delving in, Baili Fei’s eyebrows shot up abruptly, his face turning ashen, and his usually restrained Dao Realm aura fluctuated uncontrollably.
The trusted disciple who delivered the Jade Scroll was so frightened that he stepped back several paces, "Hall Master, Hall Master?"
Baili Fei, having experienced many great events, took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart, "Go, with my Talisman, order all disciples of the Lower Courtyard, no matter who, to be present for orders within a hundred breaths."
After giving instructions, with a flash of Talisman Light, Baili Fei sent out two ssages, two explosive pieces of news.
Just as the Talisman Light disappeared, a Thunder Light silently exploded in the Void of the Silent Chamber, and within it appeared Thunder Hall Master Zhen Yan, "Baili, the ssage just now, you better not be kidding with , how is this possible?"
"See for yourself!" Baili Fei casually threw the just received Nine Feathers urgent ssage over.
A burst of green Spirit Light suddenly blood in the Silent Chamber, followed by the appearance of Mu Hall Master Mu Xu.
"Baili, if what you just said is true, then...."
The Nine Feathers Talisman thrown over randomly made Mu Xu close his mouth, and he took a deep breath of cold air.
"The entire Luo State Branch Temple was massacred, and the people who went found that the perpetrating Demon Clan had just left. The aura of a Soul Demon Sovereign was particularly dazzling...."
"Transmit my order, instruct the surrounding branch temples of the Luo State Branch Temple to each send out a hundred experts, forming a surrounding circle advancing towards the nearby Luo State Branch Temple!"
"Brother Zhen, Brother Mu, the three of us must now imdiately contact those commanding Marshals on the Human Demon Battlefield to let them, under various pretenses, implent airspace and land bans, strengthen patrols and checkpoint controls,
and at the sa ti send troops to search in the reverse direction towards the Luo State Branch Temple."
"Brother Zhen, the West Patrol under Xio Qiangu is your contact. You must imdiately have him order the closure of all Ancient Teleportation Formations within a 20 million-mile radius around Luo State.
Simultaneously, activate his forces, we need any shred of anomaly." Baili Fei said.
"I’ll contact him imdiately!" Zhen Yan nodded.
"Brother Mu, the massacre at the Luo State Branch Temple happened only just an hour ago. Perhaps you and I hastening there now may still intercept the culprits." Baili Fei looked at Mu Xu.
"Your aning is?" Mu Xu was sowhat puzzled.
"Within an hour, we should be able to reach the Ancient Teleportation Formation in Wei State. With your Divine Skills, you should be able to reach the Luo State Branch Temple from the Wei State Ancient Teleportation Formation within three breaths, right?" Baili Fei said.
"A million miles in one breath, four breaths rather." Mu Xu added.
"There’s no difference, you should be able to bring a third of the experts from the branch, right?" Baili Fei said.
This ti, Mu Xu’s face changed, "Impossible! A hundred people, at most I can bring a hundred experts across four million miles in four breaths."
Upon hearing this, Baili Fei imdiately rose and stepped out of the room, "Let’s go! This ti, we should be able to catch the perpetrator!"
Baili Fei said this mainly because during the last Shahe City incident, they learned the news too late.
The Shahe Branch Temple itself was completely annihilated, not to ntion that Shahe City was amidst upheaval, so no one paid attention to the great battle inside the Shahe Branch Temple.
In the end, it was through Ming Tang’s report that they learned the Shahe Branch Temple was in trouble.
When they arrived, it was already three and a half days later.
Three and a half days were more than enough ti for the killer to escape far away.
It was precisely because of that incident that the Heavenly Temple grew to despise the Southern Patrol. In fact, the Celestial Patrol Division’s people under the Southern Patrol reported the massacre of the Shahe Branch Temple to the Southern Patrol and the Celestial Patrol Division of Great Zhou half a day later, but they never inford the Heavenly Temple.
But this ti was different with the Luo Prefecture Branch Temple; Divine Masters and Grand Spirit Masters discovered anomalies and contacted them imdiately.
With a two-hour ti difference, having two Hall Masters and a hundred elite disciples personally involved, along with the cooperation of surrounding forces, the probability of finding the perpetrator was high.
Just as Baili Fei and Mu Xu gathered their people and set out, the Thunder Hall Master Zhen Yan ca over with a sowhat troubled expression.
"I just contacted Xio Qiangu. With his authority, he can only shut down the Ancient Teleportation Formation within ten thousand miles around Luo State. Moreover, it requires multiple procedures and the fastest will be fifteen minutes later."
"If you want to shut down all seven Ancient Teleportation Formations within twenty thousand miles around Luo State, you must ask the Emperor for permission, and the soonest would be tomorrow morning," Zhen Yan said.
"It would be a miracle if the Emperor agrees!"
Baili Fei snorted discontentedly, "In that case, have Xio Qiangu first shut down the Ancient Teleportation Formation within ten thousand miles, then order him to mobilize personnel, keep an eye on those who pass through the formations that cannot be closed, and investigate recent travelers!"
With that said, Baili Fei, Mu Xu, and their large group of disciples flew overwhelmly towards the Luoyi City Gate.
While Baili Fei and Mu Xu led a large group of masters from Luoyi toward the incident at Luo Prefecture Branch Temple, Ye Zhen had already traversed five Ancient Teleportation Formations, needing just two more to teleport back to Luoyi’s Dragon Swimming Plain Ancient Teleportation Formation.
On his return, Ye Zhen did not take the original teleportation route back, worrying that the Ancient Teleportation Formation near Luo Prefecture might be shut down, so he deliberately detoured far away.
Moreover, with each Ancient Teleportation Formation, Ye Zhen would change his identity and appearance, of course, not without spending a heap of Spirit Stones to clear the way.
Without a large amount of Spirit Stones, Ye Zhen would have to queue for at least two hours, preventing such rapid return.
However, the situation was much better than Ye Zhen imagined. So far, the Mirage Avatar Ye Zhen left at Weizhou’s Ancient Teleportation Formation has not detected any closure.
But when nurous people from the Heavenly Temple’s Weizhou Branch Temple surrounded the Weizhou Ancient Teleportation Formation, Ye Zhen decisively let his Mirage Avatar dissipate.
Next, Ye Zhen encountered a minor problem while cutting in line for teleportation to Dragon Swimming Plain Ancient Teleportation Formation.
It seed that Dragon Swimming Plain’s Ancient Teleportation Formation had a malfunction; teleportation to it seed to have paused.
After spending two thousand High Grade Spirit Stones, Ye Zhen obtained information that the Dragon Swimming Plain Ancient Teleportation Formation paused for fifteen minutes.
Waiting for teleportation to Dragon Swimming Plain from at least five different Ancient Teleportation Formations ant a delay of at least two hours.
Ye Zhen had to return to Luoyi as quickly as possible to deal with any potential investigation.
Under these circumstances, Ye Zhen could only wait.
Ye Zhen felt that, until reaching the scene, the Heavenly Temple’s people wouldn’t suspect him of this matter.
Taking advantage of the one-hour wait, Ye Zhen found a secluded place and took out two long-unused small Communication Transfer Formations.
Then, he sent a Jade Scroll to each of the two long-unused small Communication Transfer Formations.
"According to reliable information, sothing interesting seems to have occurred at the Luo Prefecture Branch Temple, and it’s related to your Moon Demon (Bull Demon) Clan!
It appears the Luo Prefecture Branch Temple was exterminated by masters of your Moon Demon (Bull Demon) Clan. You might consider using this intelligence to gain so advantage within your clan.
You wouldn’t be foolish enough to claim you got the news from , right?
If it leaks out, you know the consequences, read then destroy!"
The Demon Clan guys, though not brainless, sotis tend to have a screw loose, so Ye Zhen was very clear.
Far away in the Demon Clan Territory, Bull Demon Lord Longnu and Moon Demon Royal Clan mber Yue Dao, both received an urgent ssage reinforced with heavy seals at the sa ti!
Upon reading the ssage, although far apart, the expressions on their faces were identical!
Ecstasy!
Ecstasy filled their entire faces and eyes!
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