Examination Hall Situation

At the border of Blood Pass, atop a high cliff, gale winds howled.

Below the cliff, blood mist churned like a Sea of Blood, winding all the way to the horizon as if endless, its Killing Intent shooting into the heavens.

Ning Jiushan stood at the cliff's edge in an official robe red as fire, gazing at the howling, surging blood mist in the distance without speaking for a long while.

At present, she was the only one here. The other examiners had all entered Blood Pass in pairs to investigate the cheating.

After all, with the great upheaval in Blood Pass severely disrupting the court's control over the Immortal Examination, the examiners could naturally anticipate that those clans would send Golden Core retainers into the examination grounds to assist their own juniors. Precautions had to be taken.

Click, click, click...

A faint sound of mechanisms came from an ancient-colored Compass.

The Compass was as large as a silver basin, marked with exceedingly intricate patterns and emanating a faint spiritual aura. It floated above Ning Jiushan's left palm, its needle turning very slowly.

Clusters of interwoven gold and crimson flames burned at several locations on the Compass. These flames were tiny as ants and shifted from time to time.

Each cluster of flame represented an examiner who had entered Blood Pass. Their movements meant that the examiners' positions were changing.

Meanwhile, specially made sound-transmission talismans floated in the air before her, arranged in a fan shape. From time to time, talismans flickered with faint light.

At that moment, one of the sound-transmission talismans lit up on its own, and an examiner's somewhat hurried voice emerged from within. "Lady Ning, traces of a Golden Core Realm cultivator have been found a hundred li northwest of the 'Anomaly' Seven Locust Village."

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