After Beihu Yun finished reporting her duties in Heaven City, she vanished on her way back to the Beihu household's imperial palace. Even her guards were unable to contact her. The channel that brought me the news told me to prepare myself mentally, and my heart instantly sank halfway to the floor.
The Boundless Realm immortals that Cold Immortal Mountain had sent to the Beihu household were the elite of the elite. Each could take on ten opponents alone, and unless they encountered a Heavenly Dao Realm expert, escorting their mistress away would have been no problem at all! The Beihu household had temporarily suppressed the news. She had only been missing for roughly seven or eight days, after all, but the disappearance of such an important reigning empress could never be concealed for long.
The reason for her disappearance was unknown. Every checkpoint along the way had already been investigated several times, and even the points that had reported back on schedule had all been checked one by one. The key area where she vanished was now being combed through continuously, yet not the slightest bit of news had come back.
Who stood to benefit from Beihu Yun's disappearance?
Although the war between the Four Emperors was still raging fiercely, it had not yet reached the point where every clash drew blood. After Beihu Yun's report in Heaven City and the compromises reached among the Four Emperors, the war could still be brought to an end. Kidnapping Beihu Yun was different. No matter which household did it, it would clearly cross that red line. After all, that was every lineage's bottom line.
The second possibility was a struggle over succession. But from what I knew of Beihu Chen, although this fellow's greed was not small, his ambitions were not