After they returned to the Realm Patrol Bureau, patrol reports from every quarter streamed into the hall like flowing water. The soft rustle of turning pages only made the vast hall feel even more deathly still.
The month-long patrol of the Lower Realm had finally drawn to a close, and all its gains and losses, benefits and drawbacks, were laid out on the table.
The Realm Patrol Bureau's consolidated report described a few leads.
But anyone could see that the entire report was a perfunctory piece of work, thrown together merely to satisfy the requirement.
Throughout this patrol, everyone in the Realm Patrol Bureau, from top to bottom, had approached it as a task to coast through and hours to fill, showing up without putting in any effort.
The few strange leads listed in the report seemed detailed and well supported, but in truth, they were nothing more than commonplace anomalies found throughout the Lower Realm, haphazardly cobbled together to muddle through the handover and fob off the Fire God Hall, which was leading this purge.
The grudge between the two halls went back a long way. Everyone in the Divine Court tacitly understood that the Realm Patrol Bureau resented the assignment and had no desire to risk its people's lives on the Fire God Hall's business.
The Fire God Hall wielded the Heaven-Burning Blaze and had always been fierce and domineering. Its relations within the Divine Court were so poor that it scarcely had a friend, and naturally, it did not expect the Realm Patrol Bureau to make a sincere effort.
Left with no other choice, the Fire God Hall had to take the lead itself.
It bypassed the Realm Patrol Bureau's senior officials and forcibly conscripted a group of cultivators who had patrolled the Lower Realm. Forming them