Zhou Xuan opened his eyes and lightly tapped his fingers against the edge of the Command Token.
The Heavenly Patrol Guards treated Central Province as a Breeding Ground, spreading turbid qi everywhere. They had even turned the Immortal-Burying Abyss, where the Immortal Court had fallen, into the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Pool.
By all rights, nowhere in Central Province should have escaped the Heavenly Patrol Guards' infiltration.
Yet the location the Supreme One Token pointed toward was so clean that it seemed unnatural.
Zhou Xuan put away the Supreme One Token and rose.
Instead of remaining in seclusion to absorb those Top-Grade Crystal Stones, he pushed open the stone door and walked out.
Since the Supreme One Token had reacted, he had to find out exactly what was hidden there.
Zhou Xuan raised his hand and flicked a Communication Talisman from his fingertips.
Half an hour later.
Deep within the Immortal-Burying Abyss, ghostly blue spirit flames burned quietly along the walls of the Grand Council Hall.
An oppressive atmosphere hung over the spacious, dim hall.
Emperor Jiang Wu, Old Ancestor Cangwu, Old Ancestor Xuanming, the Origin Return Alliance Leader, and Ji Chen, the Heavenly Strategy Pavilion Master who had hurried over upon receiving the message, sat in stone chairs on either side of the hall.
Old Ancestor Xuanming rubbed his hands together, squirming in his stone chair in obvious unease.
He leaned toward Old Ancestor Cangwu and lowered his voice.
"Fellow Daoist Cangwu, the Token Master summoned all of us in the dead of night. Could something have gone wrong with the Purifier?"
Old Ancestor Cangwu cradled the Dark-Gold Long Sword without even raising his eyelids.
"If the Purifier had broken, would you still be sitting here in peace?"
Old Ancestor Xuanming swallowed, then turned toward Ji Chen across from