The Alliance Leader walked up to the earth vein map and enlarged the Heavenly Sword Sect's location as far as it would go.
The point of light there had vanished, but several dark-red breaks had appeared in the surrounding earth veins.
"They wiped out the Heavenly Sword Sect, took the Heaven-Cutting Sword Frame, and cut off the Earth Vein Instrument's sensing—all within an hour."
"Whoever did this came well prepared."
"The Court Guardian Pavilion has started moving."
Emperor Jiang Wu looked at Zhou Xuan.
“When the Earth Vein Instrument merged with the Void Remnant Formation earlier, it triggered a phenomenon that covered half of Central Province. Old Woman once pinpointed this place through the backdoor in the Jade Slip. She must have noticed that the Earth Vein Instrument is recovering, too.”
"They've held Immortal Court Relics for years. They may well have similar means of tracking them down."
Zhou Xuan picked up the Jade Slip Lin Qingzhu had brought and sent his divine sense into it.
There was little information in the report.
Only an hour had passed between the Heavenly Sword Sect activating its Mountain Protection Array and the annihilation of the entire sect.
The attackers had followed a clear route. They had neither seized the spirit stone deposits nor touched the Scripture Repository or Treasure Vault, heading straight for the sect's Forbidden Land.
Once the Heaven-Cutting Sword Frame was taken, several black Spirit Boats immediately withdrew without even dealing with the bodies left behind.
They had only one objective.
To take the High-Tier Law Relic.
Zhou Xuan put down the Jade Slip and looked again at the extinguished point of light.
"Who else could it be?"
"Those mad dogs hiding in their rat holes are getting desperate."
Old Ancestor Xuanming clenched his fists, his law aura billowing his