Two hundred meters underground beneath the Holy Radiance Sect building.
What should have been underground filled with sand, rocks, and soil had been turned into a vast subterranean complex.
This underground complex had eighteen levels, each spanning over ten thousand square meters.
Each level contained more than a dozen crimson Blood Pools, where Divine Blood Envoys were born.
Yet on the deepest eighteenth level, there was only a single Blood Pool.
Inside the Blood Pool sat a tall, lean man, crimson Qi-Blood surging all around him.
Xie Shi!
The Master of the Holy Radiance Sect.
Of course, that was merely his public identity. In truth, he was the Grand Master of the Heaven's Mandate Sect's Great Xia headquarters, codenamed Tian Hong!
At that moment, he frowned slightly as he considered the news he had just received from headquarters.
According to the report, Tian Hen, who had gone to Sakura Country to kill Xu Jingming, had been unreachable for thirteen hours.
Meanwhile, not only was Xu Jingming safe and sound, he had even gone to Iceland to attend a United Nations conference.
"Could Tian Hen have failed and been killed by Xu Jingming instead?"
The moment the thought surfaced, he dismissed it.
Tian Hen was an S-rank Ninth-Order Upper-Level, with formidable strength.
Even if Xu Jingming's talent was monstrously exceptional and he possessed combat power on Tian Hen's level,
at most, he could seriously injure Tian Hen. Killing him was impossible.
"According to the earlier intelligence, Xu Jingming entered Sakura Country's Wilderness Area.
Tian Hen must have gone in to search for him, which is why headquarters can't contact him."
It was not impossible, but the thought still made Tian Hong sigh softly.
Xu Jingming had now left Iceland, and his whereabouts were unknown.
If he had returned to Great Xia,