Everyone glanced at the sky. The Seven-Colored Auspicious Cloud had vanished without a trace.
It seemed Duan Tianji's advancement had ended, and the Heaven's Mandate Sect elders had already withdrawn...
A deafening roar spread across a hundred miles.
"Heaven Momentum Sect, you have gone too far in bullying others!"
"Return our sect's supreme treasure at once, or we will attack your mountain gate. We will fight to the death!"
"You even dared steal an immortal treasure of our sect. You truly have gone mad!"
The furious, frantic voices of the two elders rang through the skies.
Everyone froze for a moment and exchanged looks. No one blamed the two elders for going mad. If any sect lost such a supreme treasure, it would go mad as well.
The key was that it had not merely been lost—it had been forcibly seized by the Heaven Momentum Sect.
Inside the Heaven Momentum Sect, three elders wore puzzled expressions.
They hurriedly activated a Heaven Momentum Sect artifact to deduce and observe the matter.
The result was a vague deduction that someone within the Fate Lake had taken the Seven-Colored Auspicious Cloud.
"That cannot be right. This is an immortal artifact, refined by the Heaven's Mandate Sect for years and still bound to an owner. None of those five examinees could have taken it."
"Could Duan Tianji have taken it? Are they putting on an act for some other scheme?"
"Surely not. That would be far too foolish..."
"Then who was it? Li Qingxian?"
"Impossible, but... judging by what he has done before, he is the most likely culprit..."
"What you said... is actually the truth."
"Other than him, no one could do something like this. How should we handle it?"
"If we do not hand it over, the Heaven's Mandate Sect will certainly