Great Xia Education Department.
"It's been three days! Department Head Gu has been missing for three days!"
The Department was in complete disarray.
The Department of Education wasn't an independent agency. Like the other departments, it ultimately fell under the jurisdiction of a higher-level administrative body.
But Gu Xingzhou, the Department of Education's highest-ranking official, had been missing for over seventy-two hours.
The other consequences were secondary. The main issue was that the head of a department had been missing for more than three days!
In this rescue operation that had nearly the entire population involved, the Secret Realm's limits meant that the strongest martial artists couldn't enter Ten Thousand Beast Mountain. Gu Xingzhou, at the Golden Body Realm, was already one of the absolute powerhouses in the rescue effort.
For the first few days, Gu Xingzhou had relied on his formidable strength to rescue many students and Patrol Examiners. But then no further news came from him.
"Should we... add the Department Head to the list of people needing rescue?"
Ji Ruo's Wind-Sweeping Breath-Severing Slash was different from the original version.
Since this wasn't a game, Ji Ruo could keep building up wind until he reached the limit his body could withstand.
When he unleashed the gale he'd accumulated, he could summon a hurricane by sheer force of will.
And Ji Ruo moved through the wind like its own child.
As the Violet-Azure Twin Feathers swept back and forth, the wind seemed to become an extension of their feather blades. With every slash, enormous blades of wind struck everything within a ten-meter radius.
The gale held the Dog Demons and Beast Realm Hyenas it had blown into the air in midair. Huge blades of wind struck one after another, while the intense pressure formed a wind field centered on