Ten minutes later.
In the fully enclosed underground Quiet Chamber of the Song-Style Courtyard House.
The enormous screen on the wall lit up, revealing the top-secret conference room within the red walls.
An elderly man sat at the head of the table, flanked by several senior figures from the military and national security. General Zhao and Ye Wenjun were among them.
"Advisor Chen, you suddenly requested a meeting at the highest level. Has something serious happened?" The elderly man looked grave. He knew perfectly well that someone as easygoing as Chen Lin would never contact them of his own accord unless the sky was falling.
Chen Lin dispensed with pleasantries and went straight to the point.
"Langya Blessed Land, in the Cultivation World. The King of Langya, an old monster at late Nascent Soul. He's lived for twenty-three hundred years."
Speaking rapidly, Chen Lin laid out every last detail of the horrifying intelligence he had obtained through the soul search.
From extending his life with the essence blood of forty-nine young girls every three years, to colluding with the Japanese army a century ago to buy and sell over a thousand girls from Huaxia, to secretly trafficking children through orphanages and schools under his control today.
As Chen Lin spoke, the atmosphere in the conference room on the other end of the video grew increasingly oppressive.
Several battle-hardened generals had gone livid.
The elderly man abruptly turned his head, his voice barely containing his thunderous fury. "Pull every unsolved missing-person case involving girls under fourteen nationwide over the past thirty years! Investigate!"
"Yes, sir!" Sweat covered Ye Wenjun's forehead as he immediately began working on the secure terminal before him.
Three minutes later.
An urgently compiled statistical report was projected onto the conference room's large screen.
None of them had