The next instant, a dim light flickered, and a lean man in black armor and a red mask suddenly appeared like a ghost, his age impossible to discern.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, I have just learned that several days ago, Young Master Xiao Chen officially entered the Inner Domain and fought the demons alone!"
The lean man was a member of the Shadow Guard who had remained hidden in the hall all along—the Xia Emperor's shadow. Wherever the Xia Emperor was, his shadows were there.
Earlier, when the Image Transmission Stone's spiritual waves had cut off and its signal vanished, the Xia Emperor had secretly summoned the Shadow Guard, ordering them to spare no expense and use every connection to gather intelligence.
Great Xia was weak, a small frontier dynasty within the vast Azure Spirit Domain.
Compared with the many great dynasties, it was woefully cut off from information.
Once the Image Transmission Stone's spiritual waves ceased, the Xia Emperor was like a blind man with his eyes open, receiving no news and completely severed from the Gods and Devils Land.
In truth, although the Image Transmission Stones distributed by the Spirit Realm's envoys differed in grade, their main differences lay only in their functions. Ordinary communication should have posed no problem.
However, the one distributing the Image Transmission Stones had been the Qiankun Dynasty.
Xiao Chen had killed Qin Chuan, making an enemy of the Qiankun Dynasty.
When distributing the stone, the Qiankun Dynasty had secretly played a dirty trick, erasing several crucial transmission runes within it. That was why Great Xia's Image Transmission Stone received almost no information.
"What? The Sword Demon has already ventured deep into the Inner Domain?" The Xia Emperor was horrified, his heart turning ice-cold.
He had never imagined Xiao Chen would be so