At the Door

"Can't find them."

At Ancient Sword Sect, Yu Yan looked utterly exhausted.

She had promised her master, Wan Ji, that she would deal with these three escaped otherworldly beings, but things had kept spiraling in an uncontrollable direction. The otherworldly being possessing Immortal Spiritual Energy had been the first to sever the connection.

Yu Yan could sense that the severance was only temporary. The Soul Chasing Mirror was still reacting; it had merely been disrupted. Yet even a temporary blinding technique was intolerable to the Nine Tomb Guarding Clans. The forbidden zone's otherworldly beings grew at an astonishing speed. Given enough time, the harm they caused could spread across the entire Immortal Cultivation World and overturn the existing order.

That was also the main reason forbidden zones were called forbidden zones.

They were not tolerated by the present world, and thus they were "forbidden."

"Kui Shan escaped into the Underworld Bureau." A fourth-generation disciple of Ancient Sword Sect dressed in black stood at the doorway, reporting the news transmitted back regarding the third otherworldly being's direction.

"Make them hand him over."

Yu Yan spoke without turning her head.

The Underworld Bureau was powerful.

But the Nine Tomb Guarding Clans were stronger. So long as the True Immortal of the Mortal World did not intervene, they feared no one. Even if a True Immortal stepped in, they were not afraid. As the force guarding the First Forbidden Zone, the Nine Sects had their own backers behind them.

"We already sent them word, but the Underworld Bureau has yet to respond. The people we dispatched were also stopped outside."

Listening to these tedious matters, Yu Yan suddenly felt bone-deep weariness.

The Emperor's Tomb World had begun having problems eight thousand years ago.

Now those problems had spread to the outside world. Two