Qingshuang City. The White Cloud Immortal Artifact arrived at the council hall inside the Hidden Origin Bell in an instant.
Wang Wu had also more or less returned to normal by then.
Only, the Heart of the Earth was throbbing faintly, slowing the circulation of his blood and vital energy by nearly a third.
If he could rely only on the Five Demon Cores, it meant a full third of his overall strength had been locked away.
"My lord, are you all right?" Feng Muhan asked guiltily, as though he had long anticipated this outcome.
"I'm fine, but you'd better give me an explanation. Why did Blood Elder try to recruit Lu Tong? Why did Elder Hui cast Divine Calculation on me at a time like this? Does the Hidden Origin Society have no law left?"
Just as Feng Muhan was about to answer, Lu Tong shouted, "Since things have come to this, there is nothing left to hide. My lord, let me tell you everything from the beginning!"
"Do you know that, in order to enter the Hidden Origin Elder Council this time, my master not only suffered grave injuries, but also offended two factions? Besides Blood Elder, the other is Liu Shengyuan, the second-rank elder whose position my master replaced."
"He is still the head of the Audit Department and the patriarch of the South Mountain Liu Family. He was once a seated elder of the Hidden Origin Elder Council, but he was removed from office over the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower incident and demoted to a third-rank elder. Over the past fifty-odd years, he has sent sixteen Earth Immortals and three Grand Unity True Immortals from our Frost Domain into the Sin Domain Tower."
"Now everyone in the Frost Domain is on edge. Many people no