Divine Luo Domain, Realm Lord's Hall.
The vast hall was paved with white divine jade whose radiance lay subdued.
At its far end, a middle-aged man in dark robes sat upon a towering throne.
He was Xuanji, lord of the Divine Luo Domain.
His expression was grim.
More than a dozen figures stood in two rows below him. Each possessed an unfathomable aura; all belonged to the Divine Luo Domain's inner circle.
A stifling silence filled the hall.
Just moments ago, three Life-Soul Lamps enshrined in the Divine Luo Domain's forbidden heartland—those belonging to Luo Tian, Luo Qingshan, and Huo Ling'er—had gone out without warning, all at once.
It meant all three had died, and even their True Spirits had been utterly erased.
"Can anyone tell me what happened?"
Xuanji's icy voice echoed through the hall.
"A minor disturbance in the insignificant Flowing Light Domain. We sent Luo Tian, and he took the Heaven-Inspecting Mirror. How... did he end up dead?"
He did not raise his voice, but the fury within it made every Hunyuan Infinite Peak expert present shudder.
An elderly man in gray Daoist robes stepped forward and bowed.
"My lord, this matter... is strange indeed."
He was Ming Luo, the Divine Luo Domain's grand elder.
"After the three Life-Soul Lamps went out, I contacted the Ten Great Dao Realms of the Flowing Light Domain."
"They reported that the Life-Soul Lamps of the dozens of Hunyuan Infinite experts they sent to assist Luo Tian had not gone out."
"But those people have vanished all the same. Not one returned to their Dao Realm, and no word has come from them."
"Vanished?" Xuanji frowned. "They're not dead?"
"No. It's as though they disappeared into thin air within the Flowing Light Domain."
"Useless."
Xuanji's verdict was flat.
In his eyes,