"What's wrong?" I realized how serious the problem was. Gong Ningyan had never spoken to me like this before, so something major must have happened. Sure enough, she soon said, "I... It's all my fault. I trusted a renegade who betrayed the sect, and I failed to protect her, letting a group of traitors kidnap her... I... She's your junior apprentice-niece..."
"What? No, that can't be right. There's internal strife in the Star Field of the Immortal Relic Sect? I clearly told Sect Master Supreme Gong to keep an eye on things!" I sucked in a cold breath. I was worried that Yuan Muying had been kidnapped, but she was in the Dao Three Realm. No matter how bad things got, she shouldn't have been kidnapped, right? Besides, she had barely expended any magical power when she left. Compared to the Dao Three Realm experts in the Immortal Relic Sect, all of whom I had taught a lesson to, could that group really have been more than she could handle?
So what worried me most instead was the Immortal Relic Sect, because I had clearly taken precautions!
"My father followed your advice and began questioning more than a dozen grand elders. But just as he started making his own position clear, someone began stirring things up. My father ordered several grand elders he was closest to suppress them and even wanted to summon my mother. But... but... sigh..." Gong Ningyan sighed again, clearly troubled.
"Tell me where you are now. I'll come to you immediately." I swept my gaze across the empty region. It looked spotless and flawless, as though the darkness were not darkness at all, but a clear, peaceful sky. It seemed that after swallowing the Corruption Pill, I had merged with the entire Corrupted Zone. The world