By the time Emperor Jianyuan returned to Wang'an City with his entourage, his expression was as ugly as could be.
He had found no trace of Longyang twelve thousand li to the east. Instead, behind him, the Overlord Martial King Mausoleum at the northern foot of West Mountain had been completely ransacked.
Nearly four thousand Imperial Guards had been killed or wounded in the battle, along with two Imperial Guard generals and a second-rank spellcaster who had died.
What enraged Emperor Jianyuan even more was that the Overlord Martial King Mausoleum had been forcibly breached, everything inside destroyed, and the bodies of Chu Zheng and Qin Muge were nowhere to be found.
He hovered above the Overlord Martial King Mausoleum, his gaze shifting uncertainly as he surveyed the devastation below.
"Since the incident began, how many people have entered this tomb to look around?"
Although the interior of the Overlord Martial King Mausoleum had been extensively wrecked, many traces remained.
The surviving runes of the Nine-Bend Nether River Array, for instance, the abundant baleful power within the tomb, and the underground river below.
"Your Majesty, when I arrived with my troops, quite a few martial cultivators from the nearby martial world had already come. Some outrageously bold individuals even went inside to investigate. I did my utmost to capture and kill them, but the incident was so sudden that we had made no preparations. Quite a few still escaped."
The man answering beside him was Great Ning's General of the Left Golden Guards. He commanded the defenses of the Imperial Forest Garden, and his troops were the Imperial Guards closest to the Overlord Martial King Mausoleum.
His expression grave, he raised his head and stole a cautious glance at Emperor Jianyuan. "While conducting the search, I strictly ordered all units