"What? Four divine kingdom branch halls were slaughtered, with not a single survivor?"
"And there were four of them?"
"Hong Ru, do you know what this means?"
When the Nine Sun Divine King received this news, his furious growl not only terrified Hong Ru out of his wits, but also threw the entire Divine King's palace into a tempest of shifting winds and clouds, with lightning and flames flashing without end.
Hong Ru answered submissively, his face full of terror.
The moment he received this news, he understood how grave the matter was, so he hurriedly reported it to the Nine Sun Divine King at once.
"Do we know who did it?" The lightning within the Divine King's palace gradually subsided, but that did not mean the Nine Sun Divine King's anger had abated.
Still wearing a terrified expression, Hong Ru shook his head and presented an investigation jade slip. "Master, no trace whatsoever was left at the scene. Our investigation has uncovered nothing so far."
Before the Nine Sun Divine King could raise his brows in anger, Hong Ru added, "But, Master, finding nothing is actually the greatest discovery."
By then, the Nine Sun Divine King had finished reading the detailed records. His face was so gloomy it seemed water could drip from it.
Within the branch halls of the four divine kingdoms, from the Grand National Teachers down, they had lost nine Creation Realm Divine Beings, one hundred and forty Dao Realm experts, and more than twenty thousand disciples below the Dao Realm.
All of them had vanished without a trace.
In other words, all of them had been killed.
Such losses were not enough to damage the foundations of the massive Heaven Temple. Of course, they certainly hurt.
But the crux of the matter lay in the