"The Director of the Demon Suppression Division? It seems he hasn't appeared in three years. Why are you asking about him?"
"How could that be?!"
"Master Wang, it's true. This is some information the two of us uncovered inside the Demon Suppression Division!"
".If that's the case, then the higher-ups did act somewhat strangely during that incident. It's just that afterward, because of the matter involving the Immortal Lord, I went to seek my master's help and didn't pay attention to it."
"I see. Could that Mountain God temple be connected to some great secret?"
"So, you trespassed into the Imperial Palace to investigate?"
In a desolate forest somewhere outside the Imperial Palace.
Zhao Wenxuan and Lin Guoying looked somewhat disheveled. They obediently stood where they were, looking like children caught after doing something wrong.
At the same time,
Wang Zhongguan stood before them, a thoughtful expression showing on his face.
The three of them had gathered here
because of an unexpected incident.
Several years ago, after obtaining immortal arts and converting to the immortal path alongside his master, Daoist Fushou, Wang Zhongguan had not left Nanchuan County City. Instead, he had begun a journey of constantly rushing about, resolving all kinds of ominous incidents throughout the world.
Later, by a stroke of luck, because of certain matters and personal favors, he became an Imperial Guard Captain in the Imperial City.
His main duty was to patrol and stand guard, preventing cultivators who had cultivated immortal arts from entering and leaving the Imperial Palace at will and posing a threat to the emperor's life.
This had been an arrangement made for a period of time.
He would leave once the imperial family had cultivated its own cultivators to provide protection.
However, before Wang Zhongguan could finish his term of guarding