She immediately gave them a secret mission: find out where those Grand Supreme Elders had gone, no matter the cost.
When the Twelve Halls Masters and dozens of Core Elders heard that the Grand Supreme Elders had vanished en masse, they first looked skeptical, then began spinning all sorts of theories.
"Those Grand Supreme Elders probably found some secret realm and sneaked off to strike it rich!"
For a moment, quite a few of them began working out their own little schemes.
After all, the previous incident of freeloading on spiritual qi was still vivid in their minds.
It had started with just such a mysterious disappearance.
Everyone who vanished had gone off to sponge up spiritual qi, and those who got in first had risen several cultivation levels.
Those who arrived late could only lick up a mouthful of broth.
This time, they had to seize the opportunity, come what may!
And so, they made a snap decision and immediately launched all manner of investigations.
Once those elders left, the temperature throughout the Sect Master's Main Hall instantly plunged to freezing.
"Those old bastards!"
Mu Qinglan finally lost control and burst into curses, her pretty face so dark it could have dripped water.
She had thought she could save two billion spirit stones this time. Now look at this-not a single one of them could be found!
What now?
She could only pay up.
The sect had only just managed to amass thirty billion in assets, and now, in the blink of an eye, it would have to throw two billion to the dogs.
The more Mu Qinglan thought about it, the angrier she became.
Worse still, she had nowhere to vent that anger and could only pace back and forth through the hall.
Yet the more she thought