No one dared to object, everyone listened earnestly, and then, after giving his orders, the leader led all the Heavenly Court experts to start descending together.

With golden light flashing, everyone directly descended upon the Eastern Desolation and headed towards the northern part of the Eastern Desolation, which happened to be Xiao Mu's guarding location.

Xiao Mu, still unaware of the news of the Heavenly Court experts' arrival, continued to guard the northern part of the Eastern Desolation as always, continuing to patrol, searching daily for traces of Heavenly Court experts while also paying attention to cultivation.

On this day, in a small village in the northern part of the Eastern Desolation, a little girl rode a Qing Niu and was herding a flock of sheep towards the mountain.

Suddenly, beside the little girl, a black hole appeared, emitting a wailing sound, followed by a hand that reached out, pulled the little girl down from the cow's back, and dragged her into the black hole.

The little girl disappeared, and the black hole vanished, leaving only the Qing Niu she rode and a group of sheep grazing on the hillside.

Xiao Mu's telepathic talisman sounded again. He took out the talisman and found that the message was from Qin Yuan.

"Grand Elder Xiao, there have been three consecutive mysterious disappearances recently in the north."

Qin Yuan reported the situation in the northern part of the Eastern Desolation via telepathic talisman, "A farmer, a shepherd girl, and an old man collecting dung respectively."

"Do you know the reason?"

Xiao Mu pressed for the investigation results.

Qin Yuan replied solemnly, "After the incidents, I immediately sent people to the locations to investigate. There were traces of supernatural energy, suspected to be the actions of Heavenly Court experts. However, we found no traces of movements or presence of Heavenly Court experts around."

"I understand. Please provide me the incident addresses. I'll go over specially to inspect."

Soon, Qin Yuan sent the incident addresses to Xiao Mu, who memorized them, unfolded the map, and began to check the incident locations on it.

At this time, his location was in another ancient city in the northern part of the Eastern Desolation.

The ancient cities in the northern part of the Eastern Desolation weren't very big, most barely the size of a small county. Due to low productivity, the population was not large, with some barely reaching ten thousand people in total.

Memorizing the map, Xiao Mu decided to first check the western part of the county.

He rode a cloud, moving swiftly, and soon arrived at the hillside where the shepherd girl had disappeared. He secretly searched the hillside but found nothing.

The enemy was very cunning, erasing all traces after abducting the girl.

Disappointed, Xiao Mu flew away, heading to the other two places.

As expected, the other disappearance points were like the shepherd girl's; the cunning enemy had erased all traces, leaving Xiao Mu with nothing.

While disappointed, Xiao Mu secretly felt that those capable of such actions must be powerful, likely True Gods or higher, or else even if the enemies tried to erase traces, they couldn't hide from his senses.

Secretly leaving behind several clones, transformed into plants, guarding these three disappearance points, Xiao Mu quietly left, intending to see if the Heavenly Court experts would reappear.

Meanwhile, in a mysterious area in the northern part of the Eastern Desolation, a medium-sized man with slightly dodgy brows hurriedly approached the gate of an Array Method. He quickly passed through the gate into another space.

In this space, a man with a firm face turned his head.

This firm-faced man possessed profound power, appearing at least in late True God stage, possibly at the peak.

His gaze fell coldly on the dodgy-looking man, and he asked coldly, "Qiu Yuan, I heard you went out again without permission, capturing three ordinary people from the Eastern Desolation?"

Qiu Yuan's face broke into a smile, a flattering look as he said to the firm-faced man, "Chief Yan sees through everything. Please rest assured, I did it very discreetly and erased all traces immediately after acting. No one could tell I had been there."

Chief Yan's expression was cold; his gaze at Qiu Yuan was somewhat annoyed, as he coldly said, "Do you know how crucial our task is this time? What punishment would you deserve if something went wrong because of your actions?"

Qiu Yuan smiled and said, "How dare I ruin things? Chief Yan, rest assured, I always act discretely, and no one can trace it."

"If you were discreet, I wouldn't have found out. From today on, you are not allowed to go out again, or don't blame me for being harsh," Chief Yan ordered coldly, clearly not trusting Qiu Yuan's assurance.

"Understood!"

Qiu Yuan lowered his head, agreeing verbally, but his expression showed extreme indifference.

"Leave!"

Chief Yan noticed the expression and became even more annoyed, but had no good solution for the other party.

This team's management was difficult, and he did not have serious authority. Some people didn't genuinely follow his orders, or else the earlier incidents of Feng Ping descending and He Zhuo and Xu Ling descending wouldn't have happened right in front of him.

"Understood!"

Qiu Yuan quickly withdrew, his expression even more indifferent.

He knew Chief Yan was annoyed but didn't take it to heart.

He believed he was doing well; as long as he hid his traces, no one would see through them.

He thought that the reason Chief Yan knew he went out was due to someone leaking the information.

He secretly speculated about who had leaked, hoping that person wouldn't be discovered by him.

After Qiu Yuan left, Chief Yan's face turned gloomy, but he soon appeared thoughtful, stepping towards another space wall.

He walked directly to the space wall, passing through with ease, entering another space.

In this space, a massive black stele rose skyward, surrounded by numerous black little flags, like the Soul-Collecting Flags previously used by Feng Ping, He Zhuo, Xu Ling, and others.

The Soul-Collecting Flags were empty, without any souls. They encircled the black stele.

The black stele rose towards the sky, releasing waves of blood light. The blood light hadn't yet overflowed but was steadily thickening, giving the impression it was soon to fully form.

"Boundary Tablet, Boundary Tablet, once the blood ritual is completed, the passage between the human world and the Heavenly Court will open wide, allowing Heavenly Court experts to freely enter and exit."

"The Human Emperor is strong, but not a match for Emperor Taija. By then, we can easily conquer the human world."

"The stakes are high. Alas, that fool Qiu Yuan barely knows to hide and only thinks about collecting souls. But no matter how many souls you collect, they're ultimately for the Boundary Tablet's use."

"Although each person has been given a Soul-Collecting Flag and the one who collects the most souls can receive rewards, exposure would make such efforts meaningless."

"These people are too short-sighted, thinking only of soul collection, especially the fool Qiu Yuan who secretly went out just to collect the souls of three ordinary people from the human world. Once war breaks out, souls of ordinary people from the human world are readily available, yet he recklessly expended efforts, sigh, truly foolish."

Chief Yan lamented, soon bowing deeply to the Boundary Tablet, then exiting the strange space to return to his original space.

He sat down, cultivating while slowly waiting for the Boundary Tablet to fully form.

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