Bang!
"Courting death!"
The thunderous crash echoed through every corner of the great hall. Below, the Yanxing Gate cultivators trembled like cicadas in winter, shivering without daring to make the slightest sound.
At the head seat, Sect Master Hong Daoping glared furiously, like an enraged lion surveying its territory.
The air was steeped in deathly silence,
and a heavy weight pressed upon everyone's hearts.
No one dared speak.
"Gongsun Wen's identity is of great importance, and he has countless ties to the Supreme Old Ancestor. This Seat does not care what methods you use—within half a month, you must bring that murderer back and subject him to thousand cuts!"
Hong Daoping practically gritted out the icy words one by one. In the end, they became a furious roar that resounded throughout the entire Sect Gate!
"Yes!"
On this day,
the entire Yanxing Gate, the hegemon of the Southern Yue Territory, sprang into action.
Cultivators flew out from the Sect one after another, scattering in all directions to investigate.
As the hegemon of the Southern Yue Territory, the only Sect within a radius of over a million li to possess a Myriad Transformations Realm expert, with Cave True Realm cultivators accounting for more than eighty percent of its ranks,
Yanxing Gate's rule over the Southern Yue Territory could be described as exceedingly tyrannical.
At the slightest disrespect, destroying a household and exterminating a clan was considered a minor matter.
Under layer upon layer of pressure,
information was continuously gathered.
They began tracing the murderer's escape route.
At the same time,
many of the cultivators and commoners who had been in Zhujiang City that day were seized by the ruthlessly determined Yanxing Gate.
To prevent the murderer from fleeing and hiding without appearing, they gathered the hundred thousand Zhujiang City residents they