The miners' panic and refusal to work left the deacon in charge of the immortal stone mine deeply anxious. To uncover the truth, she sent a squad of ten guard disciples down into the tunnels to investigate, but all their Soul Tokens shattered, and not one returned.
To find out what was really happening inside the mine, she personally led the five disciples with the highest cultivation down into the tunnels.
Not only did the late Golden Immortal deacon fail to discover what was happening, but all five disciples she took down with her also mysteriously vanished.
She herself suddenly suffered severe injuries for no apparent reason. Before she even noticed anything, she discovered that her internal organs were shattered, her meridians were damaged, and her immortal power was draining away in great quantities. In the end, she only managed to escape the mine by holding on long enough to crush a talisman.
Dragging her severely injured body, she personally hurried back to the Cloud Glow Sect's base to report the situation at the immortal stone mine to Sect Leader Ke Meili.
This was the Cloud Glow Sect's most important immortal stone mine, accounting for forty percent of the immortal stones produced by all the sect's mines.
Ke Meili took the news very seriously and immediately sent a mid-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal elder with several early-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal deacons to deal with it.
The outcome was that all six of them, including the mid-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal elder, went and never returned. Their Soul Tokens shattered.
This put Ke Meili in a difficult position. Even a mid-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal elder had met such an end, while the highest cultivation among the Cloud Glow Sect's other elders was only the late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal realm. Beyond them, her son-in-law