Just as word spread from Starshine City's City Lord's Manor that experts from Star Luo Hall would soon arrive and use a secret treasure to search for the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree.
On the second night, a sudden upheaval struck the city.
Experts clashed in a secluded part of Starshine City, demolishing several buildings and alarming many of the city's martial artists.
That night, martial artists who happened to be nearby reported what they had seen.
Two black shadows, one pursuing the other, had vanished into an alley.
The fleeing black-clad figure had given off an astonishing surge of worldly energy and life aura.
It seemed to be some Heavenly Treasure of extraordinary quality.
Several people had witnessed this firsthand, and many martial artists nearby had also sensed that fleeting trace of aura.
Among them were people of exceptional discernment, who insisted that the aura belonged to the "Cloudzhi Immortal Tree."
As soon as the news spread, Starshine City's martial artists erupted into an uproar.
Earlier, news that the stolen immortal tree might still be in the city had spread like wildfire.
But many people had remained half convinced and half doubtful.
After all, no one had seen the actual immortal tree appear. Perhaps it had long since left Starshine City.
Only when this incident occurred did traces of the immortal tree emerge.
The city's major factions and martial artists seemed to have been injected with a stimulant, and the entire city boiled over.
The City Lord's Manor, the Famed Sword Sect, the Moon-Covering Temple, and the Treasure Elephant Sect took the lead.
The four major factions and countless martial artists searched every corner of the city day and night for the two black-clad figures who had fought during the pursuit that night.
Yet the two seemed to have evaporated from