"Around five days ago, someone from the Realm Patrol Bureau used your Teleportation Array to travel to the Eastern Domain. Hand him over!"
On the deathly silent street, the Burning Heaven Lord finally spoke.
His voice was not loud, but it sounded like a red-hot branding iron grinding across an iron plate, grating and oppressively dry.
The crimson flame patterns floating around him abruptly sank into the void. Dust suspended beside the street was instantly incinerated by the heat, and even the flowing wind evaporated at that moment.
It was the silent suppression of the law of fire. It set nothing ablaze, yet scorched away every trace of free spiritual energy nearby.
"Around five days ago?"
Ling Tianfan's eyelid twitched. He glanced sideways and swiftly exchanged a look with Wei Cang beside him.
A flicker of puzzled recognition crossed both their eyes.
Five days earlier, someone from the Realm Patrol Bureau had indeed stepped onto the Teleportation Array bound for the Eastern Domain.
It was Liu Chengan.
When he returned, he had been wreathed in demonic energy and moving in haste. Without reporting any findings, he had requisitioned a Lower Realm Teleportation Token without authorization and gone straight to the Lower Realm. There had been no word from him since.
The Internal Affairs Office had already found the matter suspicious and secretly deployed men to investigate over the past few days. Instead of receiving news of Liu Chengan, they had first received visitors from the Fire God Hall.
"So it really was someone from your Realm Patrol Bureau."
Seeing the uncertainty on their faces, the Burning Heaven Lord's crimson pupils abruptly contracted, and the fiery fury in his chest erupted.
An invisible heat wave suddenly spread outward from him. The bluestone paving baked white, its surface peeling away layer by