Kun Province, Great Spirit Field Realm, Third-Grade Azure Fields minor state boundary.
Mo Hua, clad in a black robe that concealed his face, walked through a stretch of desolate farmland.
The crops had withered and rotted, while blood seeped through the soil.
Mo Hua's feet trod upon the blood-red earth. A copper coin drifted between his fingers, searching for a direction.
According to what Chief Administrator Yu had previously said, Chief Inspector Gu's last transmission had been sent from the Azure Fields region.
The message had said: "Undercurrents are surging through the Azure Fields region, the riots are worsening, and the situation has deteriorated..."
After that, all news had been cut off. The Dao Court Office's internal Primal Magnetism channels had all been severed as well.
Uncle Gu's party, numbering over a hundred Dao Court Office cultivators—more than half of them trusted Gu Family retainers—had vanished into the Azure Fields State Boundary, their lives and deaths unknown.
The Dao Court Office in Houtu City had stood by with folded arms.
They wished nothing more than for Gu Changhuai, that "thorn in their eye," to die in the Great Spirit Field Realm's unrest while on official duty.
Chief Administrator Yu of the Demon Suppression Office wanted to intervene, but the Demon Suppression Office had too few people, and he himself was stretched too thin.
Thus, the situation could only remain deadlocked.
No one knew what exactly had happened within the Azure Fields State Boundary, nor how severe the riots had become.
Only after more than half a month had passed did Mo Hua personally set foot on the Azure Fields State Boundary to seek out Gu Changhuai, dead or alive.
But the problem was that the Azure Fields State Boundary was, after all, a state boundary, vast in territory.
Even though