About fifteen minutes later, the Death Knell trembled again, its piercing toll spreading throughout the Nine Provinces.
Tie Zhu flew out with King of the Fifth Office.
News soon came back. This time, it was a city. People in a bar and pedestrians on the surrounding streets had suddenly died en masse. The death toll was 682, including one member of the Netherworld Messenger Reserve Corps.
"Fifteen minutes! Every fifteen minutes, the bell rings and takes countless living lives. As for the death toll, we haven't found any pattern yet," Zhou Tai said gravely.
"And even among people in the same area, some live and some die. What determines who lives and who dies?" Tang Yi's face was tightly furrowed.
"Judging by their facial features, there seems to be a connection between the victims' five-element attributes, but I need more time to piece together more information," Sister Hong said, finally having discovered something.
"Also..."
The Dao Alliance's sect masters, along with Tang Yi, Sister Hong, Yuan Tiansuan, and the others, were deep in heated discussion. The Yamas could only watch anxiously from the sidelines, while some others left. Had Jiang Chen not needed to serve as their pillar of support, he would probably have run out to find a solution too.
Before long, the bell tolled again. King of Equality returned, looking somewhat distraught.
"No, no! I was so close! Damn it!"
Six Yamas had just gone out, each to guard a city. King of Equality had been lucky enough to reach the city selected this time.
When the bell rang, he had tried to rescue the people in the selected area.
Unfortunately, he had failed.
Before long, Tie Zhu returned too, bringing even more heartbreaking news.
He had encountered the people selected by this round of tolling and tried