"How could this be? Impossible—this is absolutely impossible!" His voice brimmed with shock.
He simply could not believe that the treasure he had gone to such lengths to obtain was empty inside.
He could have rattled off every item that should have been in this box like treasures from his own home, yet now, he could not utter a single word.
He searched through the box again and again, only to find no other secret within it. It was simply empty.
"Someone took the things from inside the box?" This possibility surfaced in his mind.
But immediately afterward, he rejected it.
"That's impossible. I was the one who opened this Immortal Ascension Road for them. Only Su Qichen and those people entered it."
Before this, the Immortal Ascension Road had been completely sealed off. No one could have entered.
And the Black Tiger blocking the Immortal Ascension Road was not of the Human Race. She could not have entered the great hall, nor could she have opened the box.
This left him utterly baffled.
After searching through the box, he finally discovered a clue.
"There is something wrong with this box!" he said with certainty as he stared at it.
With a wave of his hand, a force landed on the box. That single strike shattered it into dust.
At the same time, his expression became exceptionally ugly and twisted.
A box like this could not possibly have come from the Immortal Realm, much less be destroyed by one casual strike from him.
"Someone set me up!" His icy tone was filled with fury.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Don't let me find out who you are. Otherwise, even if I must scour heaven and earth, I will cut you down!"
He began retracing every possibility—who could have plotted