Losing His Rationality

"What are you panicking about? Take your time and speak!" Fu Tianzun's heart tightened, and he shouted sharply.

The disciple suddenly burst into tears, his voice filled with fear and grief:

"Old Ancestor! Just now... just now, someone delivered five people wrapped in burlap sacks. Those five were Fu Ling, Zhen Xuan, Mo Yan, Ling Shu, and Xing Luo—the five most outstanding young Heavenly Prides!

"They... they were all barely clinging to life, their faces as pale as golden paper. Most of the essence blood in their bodies had been depleted, their Yuan Yang had dispersed, and their Divine Souls were feeble to the extreme. What's more, the meridians and dantians in their bodies—even their Origin Spirit Roots, which they used to inscribe talisman patterns—had all suffered irreversible damage!"

Upon hearing the disciple's words, Fu Tianzun and the Elders all changed expression drastically and shot to their feet.

Fu Ling, Zhen Xuan, Mo Yan, and the others were the future foundation of the Ten Thousand Talisman Immortal Sect, Heavenly Prides whom the sect had spent an enormous price to nurture.

"Speak! Who could be so bold?"

Fu Tianzun's expression was incomparably gloomy. "Speak! Who could be so bold?"

"It... it was..."

At that, the disciple glanced nervously at Danchenzi in the main hall before hurriedly saying, "It was Xuan Zhan of the Lingxiao Pill Palace and Yin Yue of the Yin Yang Dao Court. Those two schemed to deceive Senior Brother Fu Ling and the others!"

Upon hearing the disciple's words, Danchenzi's heart sank. He immediately shouted, "Don't slander people recklessly! Xuan Zhan is my personally taught chief disciple. He normally devotes himself to studying the pill dao and hardly ever leaves the palace. How could he possibly have plotted against them?"

"It was Xuan Zhan of the Lingxiao Pill