"Master, word has come from the personnel at the Sacred Realm exit: the other eight Sacred Venerables have successively emerged from the Sacred Realm."
Inside the Azure Sacred Hall, Qing Jiu, a disciple who had hurried in, made his report.
Lan Daolin, who had been personally leafing through Misty Pavilion's secret files, seemingly searching for something, slowly raised his head and asked suspiciously, "They have all left the Sacred Realm?"
"Yes!" Qing Jiu answered. After a brief hesitation, he added, "This disciple previously received news that Hundred Rivers Valley, one of Han Kingdom's three great sects, had suddenly mobilized over a hundred of its personnel stationed at Misty Pavilion to operate in Boundless Pavilion. I do not know what they are up to, nor whether it is related to this matter."
"Boundless Pavilion?" Lan Daolin slowly rose to his feet and said gravely, "Why was this not reported sooner?"
A little nervous, Qing Jiu said, "Junior Brother is the master of Boundless Pavilion. As for matters concerning Boundless Pavilion, this disciple thought it best to wait for Junior Brother to report them himself. Who could have known there would be no word for so long?"
"I'll go take a look!" Before Lan Daolin's words had even faded, he was gone. With a whoosh, a figure shot out of the hall.
At Boundless Pavilion, countless people were gripped by panic. Cultivators coming and going through Boundless Pavilion had suddenly been placed under control. They could enter, but they could not leave.
The people controlling Boundless Pavilion were, at first, the hundred-plus Hundred Rivers Valley disciples brought by Li Zhengfa.
Naturally, Hundred Rivers Valley's disciples alone could not control Boundless Pavilion. But with Du Wuxu, one of the Nine Saints, backing them, things were different.
After leaving the Sacred Realm, Du