When the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court received the report, it initially thought nothing of it.
After all, vast amounts of information poured in every moment.
Some reports mentioned manifestations descending from the heavens, others spoke of evil descending into the mortal world, and still others described strange beings suddenly appearing, killing some creature, then disappearing again.
In short, there were countless bizarre occurrences of every description.
The information Wang Quan reported was utterly inconspicuous among all these reports.
However, Wang Quan's clearance within the Dao Court was anything but ordinary.
His report was soon escalated and sent to a higher department.
After reviewing the information and checking his clearance, those cultivators escalated it again.
Soon, Wang Quan's report reached the hands of some bigwigs.
These bigwigs had hundreds or even thousands of level-seven and level-eight Inverted Wisdom units attached externally.
With every breath, they processed hundreds or thousands of pieces of information.
After seeing Wang Quan's report and clearance, one bigwig immediately set aside the other information and used Wang Quan's report to pull together other similar reports.
One breath...
The bigwig reviewed a hundred and eight thousand case files.
On the second breath, he traced those hundred and eight thousand files back through over a million more.
By the fifth breath, this Dao Court bigwig had discovered several hundred reports similar to Wang Quan's.
Such incidents mostly occurred in the Third Layer and the Fourth-Layer World.
They had been overlooked by the Dao Court only because the reporters' clearance was too low, and the incidents were merely somewhat strange, without causing any casualties.
On the tenth breath, the Dao Court bigwig issued an order, and dozens of Dharma Form Cultivators returned from the Fifth-Layer World to the Fourth-Layer World to investigate the anomaly Wang Quan had described.
At the same