Within the Mu Clan, Mu Guiqing and Red Phosphorus, who had been sitting with their eyes closed regulating their breathing, suddenly sensed a ripple.
Opening her eyes, Mu Guiqing saw a streak of spiritual light arrive before her. She immediately reached out and caught it.
The information contained within the spiritual light instantly entered her consciousness:
"Master Mu, Savage Ox and I have been attacked..."
The message had come from Shen Xiaohe.
Mu Guiqing immediately rose to her feet and confirmed repeatedly that the message had indeed been sent by Shen Xiaohe.
For something like this to happen at such a critical juncture—even though Shen Xiaohe had not had time to explain who their attacker was—Mu Guiqing could already guess.
"What happened?" Seeing Mu Guiqing's grim expression, Red Phosphorus seemed to have guessed something.
Mu Guiqing said in a deep voice, "Shen Xiaohe and Savage Ox were attacked!"
Red Phosphorus frowned. "Could it be people from the imperial clan?"
After pondering for a moment, Mu Guiqing nodded. "It has to be the imperial clan."
"Only experts from the imperial clan could possibly suppress Shen Xiaohe and the others in such a short time."
Though Shen Xiaohe and Savage Ox were only at the first level of the True God Realm, they possessed top-grade extraordinary artifacts personally forged by Jiang Feng. Only under an absolutely overwhelming disparity in raw strength could they have been suppressed so swiftly that they could not even send out a complete distress message.
After thinking it over, Red Phosphorus said, "Looks like Ah Feng was right. The imperial clan has had us under their watch all along."
"Don't worry. Since the imperial clan captured Shen Xiaohe and Savage Ox, they probably won't do anything to them."
Mu Guiqing thought for a moment, then nodded. "The imperial