Xu Yuan returned to Clearheart Hall.
Outside the hall, figures hurried back and forth.
Lu Qingxuan had already assigned people to investigate Qianqian.
This was different from last time.
When they had investigated Border City's population, everyone had already known the entire city was dead, so they had only given the records from ten years ago a cursory check. This time...
Everything was different!
The investigation into the Cultivator named Qianqian would be comprehensive and thorough. They would pursue every lead to the end!
Fu Xiuyi stood on the raised platform, frowning. She asked gravely:
"It seems this Border City isn't a city at all, but something else... What did you see after you went in?"
"An identical Border City, Master," Xu Yuan said.
He concealed nothing about what he had discovered on the other side of the passage, recounting it carefully from beginning to end.
Inside and outside the hall,
every Cultivator listened intently.
Some recorded Xu Yuan's discoveries on Jade Slips reserved for that purpose.
They were all highly trained experts.
Yet when Xu Yuan finished, bewilderment still showed in their eyes.
That city was too strange.
Crown Prince Lu Qingxuan was speaking quietly with two senior Cultivators beside him.
Something felt wrong.
Xu Yuan sensed it too and could not help asking:
"Master, is there a problem with what I said?"
"You don't know. Strange phenomena have been appearing all over the world. We thought they were isolated incidents, but now it seems something much bigger is happening," Fu Xiuyi said.
Just then, Lu Qingxuan took out a Communication Talisman, glanced at it, and joined in:
"We've found something."
"Where was Qianqian from?" Xu Yuan asked at once.
"The registry looked normal before, but this time we checked from the beginning, focusing on the officials who registered