Chapter 1179
The token rang.
Vuo Huoqi, who was in Beilu, immediately turned grave.
This was a message from Empress Houtu.
No one knew whether Empress Houtu was an artifact spirit or some other living being.
The late Emperor had once said that she was a central hub connected to all things.
Thus, once the token was activated, Empress Houtu knew everything and understood everything.
Ever since the Old Heaven disappeared, Empress Houtu had taken over control of the great realm. She had not fallen completely silent because of the two men's disappearance, merely become even more taciturn.
After so many years, even if she had not originally been a living being, under the protection of faith power and through her own growth, she should have developed intelligence. The cultivators of the underworld simply did not investigate the matter.
Why had she suddenly sent him a jade slip dispatch?
As the General Who Guarded the North, every move he made should have come from the Yin Son of Heaven. Though the late Emperor was gone, and the current young son had been born in the deep palace and raised among women, unable to centralize power or possess the strength to control the underworld, there were still quite a few old hands among the Five Ghost Emperors and Ten Yama Kings. With power divided among them, the underworld still needed to know his movements.
"Strange..."
Vuo Huoqi could not make sense of it no matter how he thought.
An official document without any signature, sent directly from Empress Houtu to his token—it looked suspicious no matter how he viewed it.
"A smaller city beneath Luodu's Star City, Fallen City of Huaizhou..." Vuo Huoqi was half-convinced and uneasy. Could this be a trap laid by another faction, meant to accuse him of