The Left Protector cupped his fists and was just about to withdraw when Ling Tianchen called him back.
"Wait!"
"What else do you command, Alliance Leader?" the Left Protector asked.
"Go! Have the Alliance Army increase the search parties again! Every sect must send another ten Grand Supreme Elders!"
"Huh?" The Left Protector froze. "Well... Alliance Leader, we already required every sect to send twenty Grand Supreme Elders."
"If they send another ten, then... some of the smaller sects might not have anyone left!"
"No one left?"
Ling Tianchen immediately roared, "No one left?!"
"A sect is disappearing practically every other day! When that 'strange phenomenon' descends on them, then they really won't have anyone left!"
"Well..."
The Left Protector thought it over. That did seem reasonable.
Protecting the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance now meant protecting themselves.
He nodded and immediately withdrew.
"Hahaha..."
Excitement covered Ling Tianchen's face. Rubbing his hands, he muttered to himself, "Perfect! I can rake in another hefty sum!"
The Azure Cloud Sect, the Sect Master's Main Hall.
Smack!
Mu Qinglan slammed her palm onto the desk. The desk before her, comparable to a mystic-tier magical treasure, shattered on the spot.
"Outrageous! They want us to send another ten people to join the 'Divine Inquiry Army'?!"
The so-called Divine Inquiry Army was an organization Ling Tianchen had formed to search for clues concerning the mysterious disappearances of sects.
But angry as she was...
Throughout the Southern Twelve Provinces and the Central Twelve Provinces, the weaker sects were already gripped by fear.
Although the dozens of vanished sects were hardly worth mentioning compared with the innumerable sects throughout the Eastern Region,
over the past month, a sect had mysteriously disappeared almost every day.
No one could say whether their own sect would be next.
That inevitably