Xu Yi sensed that something was wrong, so he stopped rushing to enter Central City. With a flicker, he vanished.
He stopped to rest on a mountaintop, took out the Ruyi Pearl, and tried to contact Elder Yu Zhi Qiu. To no avail—there was no response.
Next, he contacted Yan Zi. Again, there was no response.
Xu Yi grew anxious and tried reaching several of his close friends at the Golden Core South Courtyard, but he still couldn't get through.
Xu Yi thought, This is bad. For a moment, he couldn't figure out what was going on. Gritting his teeth, he set off for Central City once more.
This time, he switched to the southern gate, put away his Golden Core Society badge, and slipped into Central City behind a merchant caravan.
After wandering around Central City for half a day, Xu Yi figured out what was going on.
His uncanny perception and ability to gather information were unmatched in the world.
It turned out that the Golden Core Society had fallen out with the Immortal Palace—or, more precisely, with the Great Sun Divine Palace.
Now the Great Sun Divine Palace had stepped fully into the open and seized complete control of the Immortal Palace. It had overturned a series of cooperative agreements previously reached between the Immortal Palace and the Golden Core Society, declared the Golden Core Society a heretical sect, and banned the circulation of all Dan Books and Gold Registers.
In addition, every member of the Golden Core Society had to report to the Missionary Institute of their own accord, accept its doctrines, and purge the poison lingering in their minds.
Those who refused were branded as heretics. At best, they would be imprisoned; at worst, they would be destroyed.
While Xu Yi had been in the