"Dong!"
"Dong!"
The unusual tolling of the bell instantly startled the long-peaceful Myriad Phenomena Sect awake.
In the Earthly Treasures Hall, Ma Shengxu was swamped with reviewing the documents submitted by several Deputy Hall Masters under him.
Sect Master Qu Shentong had taken more than a hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators to the distant West Sea Kingdom to deal with the Yuan Magnetism Calamity, and even the Earthly Treasures Hall had been stripped of nearly half its people.
Many of the Earthly Treasures Hall's duties were now handled by the Gold Core Cultivators below. Although they could manage most of them, some problems had still arisen.
They were short-handed.
So much so that even he, the Hall Master, had to attend to matters personally.
Hearing the bell outside the hall, the vermilion brush in his hand abruptly stopped.
Ma Shengxu frowned slightly and looked toward a Gold Core Cultivator temporarily stationed at one side of the hall.
"What happened? Why has the alarm suddenly sounded at this hour?"
The Gold Core Cultivator was quick on his feet and hurriedly said:
"This disciple will go and check."
Ma Shengxu nodded and raised his brush to resume marking the documents, but after a moment's thought, he still felt uneasy. He immediately set down his brush and headed outside.
As he stepped outside, Ma Shengxu's expression stiffened.
At the farthest reaches of his vision.
Tall-masted ships from some unknown place hovered silently outside the Sect.
There were fully three or four hundred dragon-prowed ships, exuding an inherent majesty and weight.
What made his heart sink even further was that every ship carried two or three Nascent Soul Cultivators.
Although most of these Nascent Soul Cultivators had the presence of the early stage, he had served as Hall Master of the Earthly Treasures Hall for