"Look, the report is out! Lord Joshua really has gone missing." At the entrance to the Demiplane, a powerful cultivator suddenly shouted.
As he spoke, he projected the news page from his virtual panel into the air and enlarged it so everyone could see.
Hearing him, the hundred or so powerful cultivators present were startled and turned to the projection to read the report.
Shock Joshua, a Silver Federation Human, had once been one of their group.
At his peak, Joshua had been roughly a first-rank Star-level cultivator. Due to contamination from Four-Dimensional Spacetime energy, he could only barely wield the combat power of a ninth-rank Planetary-level cultivator.
He had left the Demiplane entrance a year ago.
According to the news report, he had gone shopping seven days ago and then completely lost contact, his whereabouts unknown.
Over the past year, members of their group had frequently gone missing. Joshua was already the fourth.
As they read the report, everyone grew even more worried.
Centered around Luc Vandero, they began discussing it in low voices.
"Lord Joshua is Star-level. I never thought even he could go missing?"
"Sigh, that makes four already."
"The first three were all Planetary-level. I never expected even Star-level cultivators to start 'disappearing' now."
"How is this a disappearance? It's obviously an assassination!" someone roared angrily.
"Exactly, it's assassination!" Someone nearby immediately chimed in. "How could a Star-level cultivator disappear so easily? Do they take us for fools?"
For a time, the crowd was outraged, everyone furious.
They had never heard of any powerful cultivator above the Planetary level going missing before. Every move made by Planetary-level cultivators like them was watched by countless eyes; the word "disappearance" was far too uncommon.
Yet in just one year, four had vanished!
And once they disappeared, they never