This enormous piece of bad news instantly spread through the Empire's upper echelons.
To the Empire's Awakened Ones, the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion was far more than merely a holy land.
Not only did the Mystic Mansion contain countless opportunities, but Ability Rice alone was a crucial resource for Awakened Ones to improve their cultivation.
The Empire also had a small number of experimental Ability Rice fields outside the Mystic Mansion, but the Mystic Mansion's output was the main supply.
Besides its related production, this place was also an important base for all kinds of cultivation experiments.
Most importantly, the Mystic Mansion's secrets were far from fully explored. It was an enormous treasure trove.
The Empire's upper echelons even unanimously believed that the Mystic Mansion was the Awakened Ones' greatest hope and support in catching up to the Divine Script System!
The Alliance had the Tianwen Project, the Federation had once possessed the support of Great Expert Wu Xuan, and the Empire's support was the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion!
This was practically the sky falling.
The Empire dispatched a considerable number of starships to search for the vanished Mystic Mansion in the vastness of space.
But obviously, if even so many troops had failed to guard the Mystic Mansion, finding it now would be far harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
Not to mention that when the Mystic Mansion departed, it had been only the size of a fist. How were they supposed to find it? The good news was that the Mystic Mansion had not harmed a single person when it left.
There was no need to mention those outside the Mystic Mansion. Even those inside had merely been expelled, suffering at most a few scrapes.
In other words, if an intelligent lifeform controlled the Mystic Mansion,