As dusk deepened, more than a hundred soul lamps in the Soul Lamp Hall of the Law Enforcement Hall of the Southern Cloud Immortal Palace went out one after another, like falling meteors. Their pale blue-white ghostly light burst in the darkness, like a silent tribulation of thunder.
The glazed lamp covers rattled loudly. The jade register slipped from the hall elder's hands with a clatter, and its yellowed pages fluttered to the floor.
This sudden upheaval instantly stirred stormy waves throughout this super immortal sect that had stood for countless tens of thousands of years.
As a super immortal sect with deep foundations, the Southern Cloud Immortal Palace had never in its history suffered such a devastating collective loss of disciples.
The morning bells and evening drums abruptly fell silent. A murderous aura filled the space between the golden towers and jade pavilions, while the Sect Master's robes snapped and billowed in the Gang Wind.
He raised a hand and swept it through the air. At once, thirty-six main peaks lit up with blood-red Communication Talismans, like crimson lightning tearing open the firmament.
In an instant, countless flying vessels roared through the clouds. The demon-suppressing halberds at their prows gleamed coldly, carving bright silver trails through the night.
After some investigation, they discovered that every clue pointed to the smuggling flying vessel of the Mountain River Association, the one laden with secrets.
The last people to come into contact with the disciples of the Southern Cloud Immortal Palace's Law Enforcement Hall had been the cultivators aboard that very vessel.
When the Southern Cloud Immortal Palace's large force of elite disciples came storming in, the Mountain River Association's headquarters immediately descended into chaos, as though the sky itself had collapsed.
When the many top-level experts of the Southern Cloud Immortal