A violent upheaval thundered underground, and Hall Master Azure Spider and the others hurried back to the valley.
Once they steadied themselves and looked around, they discovered that fewer than ten people had escaped with their lives.
Azure Spider cursed inwardly, her heart seething. Damn it! Whose thieves have come to steal the inheritance of my Five Viscera Hall?
Her eyes flickered, and she soon thought of the other four halls of Mount Lu.
From what she had previously learned through interrogation, the Five Halls of Mount Lu, or rather, the Five Sects of Mount Lu, were branches of the same tree, their respective inheritances all springing from one source.
If so, someone from another hall who knew certain vital secrets and had slipped into the Five Viscera Hall's inheritance grounds could very well have triggered this upheaval.
Beside her, the surviving Earth Immortals from outside the mountain were all talking over one another.
One of them cried, "What on earth has happened? Fellow Daoist Azure Spider, you must give us an explanation!"
Others were remarkably bold. Though they had barely escaped with their lives, they still shouted, "A treasure must be emerging here! There must be a treasure!"
Amid the noisy clamor, Hall Master Azure Spider swept a cold glance over them.
Rather than respond, she took out her hall master's command token and activated it at once.
Its sound and light swept through the entire hall's territory, reaching a hundred li:
"Earth Immortals of the Five Viscera Hall, heed my command! Come here at once!"
With a humming buzz, streaks of spiritual light flew from the valley and surged toward every corner of the Five Viscera Hall.
Before long, every Earth Immortal in the hall had been alerted. Er Daiyuan was among them.
She examined the voice transmission