Inside the Heaven-Patrolling Immortal Palace, Xuanchenzi stared gravely at the [Heaven-Patrolling Bell], which had fallen quiet again, a fine sheen of cold sweat seeping across his forehead.
The target had vanished into thin air!
This had never happened in the history of the [Heaven-Patrolling Bell]!
He dared not delay in the slightest. He immediately took out a jade-green, disc-shaped immortal artifact-the Heaven-Patrolling Compass-and transmitted everything that had just happened, together with the record of the [Heaven-Patrolling Bell]'s unusual activity, to the palace master.
Deep within the Immortal Palace, immortal mist curled through a palace built in the style of a mortal monarch's residence.
A powerfully built, dignified-looking middle-aged man sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion in the center of the hall, his eyes closed.
He was Wu Tian, master of the Heaven-Patrolling Immortal Palace, a late-stage Great Unity Golden Immortal.
Buzzz-
To his right, on a dark red table, a jade-green Heaven-Patrolling Compass identical in design to Xuanchenzi's trembled faintly.
Wu Tian slowly opened his eyes, a trace of displeasure appearing between his brows, as though annoyed at being disturbed.
He extended a thread of divine sense into it. As he finished reading Xuanchenzi's report, the temperature in the hall seemed to drop several degrees in an instant.
"Hmph!"
At his cold snort, the immortal mist immediately churned without rest.
A mere forbidden-art practitioner from the lower realms had actually escaped the [Heaven-Patrolling Bell]'s lock?
This was no longer a simple violation of heavenly law, but an open challenge to the authority of the entire Heaven-Patrolling Immortal Palace!
Wu Tian did not rise immediately. Something else occurred to him.
With a stir of thought, he recalled the records of how that lower-realm incident ten thousand years ago had been handled.
He consulted them through the Heaven-Patrolling Compass. The records