Upon hearing this, Tantai Yu's gaze shifted.

"So, this is why there have been people sneaking into Sirius City to spy on us every now and then over the past three days?"

During the three days she was stationed there, although she did not personally encounter any of them, members of her reclusive families and some members of the Heavenly Dao Supreme Alliance all encountered other forces that came to spy on them.

They all seem to come from the twelve cities of the Northern Region.

However, they dared not go too deep, but instead explored the periphery.

Tantai Yu had previously thought that these people were just routinely coming to check on what was happening in Tianlang City and were not specifically targeting them.

But now it seems these people are probably here to gather information.

Huangfu Kong nodded.

"Recently, there have indeed been some extra people from the Twelve Cities in the city. Nominally, they are all under the control of the Elders Council. However, after Zhang Shentong released this news, it is hard to guarantee that the Twelve Cities will not have any other ideas."

"After all, there are tens of millions of ordinary people and more than 100,000 martial artists under the command of the Twelve Cities. It is difficult for them to move away from the Northern Region with peace of mind. If they have the opportunity, they will naturally want to stop the continued release of demonic energy in the Demon Cave."

Tantai Yu's expression turned serious.

This is the will of millions!

Even if not all of them are willing to stay in the Northern Region, the number of those who want to stay is definitely huge. Add to that the warriors who are under orders, and if they were to storm into Tianlang City...

Even if the Heavenly Dao Ten Clans and the Elder Council could stop them, it was destined to be an internal strife that would affect the entire Great Xia.

Who can bear the consequences?

Tantai Yu said with some shame, "If only we hadn't broken that seal in the first place."

Huangfu Kong shook his head and said, "Don't blame yourself. The seal was already on the verge of collapse. You just brought it forward a little while."

"But this is also a key point that the Twelve Cities are criticizing us for, and it's not easy to refute that."

Huangfu Kong was having a headache because of this.

After he finished speaking, he prepared to leave. As the Grand Elder in charge of the entire Great Xia Dynasty, he obviously had countless things to deal with, and he wished he could stretch one day into two.

Just after Huangfu Kong left.

Tantai Yu summoned one of her subordinates, a kind-looking middle-aged man who had once been a retainer of a reclusive family. He bowed respectfully to Tantai Yu.

"Master, what orders do you have for me to carry out?"

"Notify Bai Yiyi of the Heavenly Dao Supreme Alliance that I need to see her to discuss the next steps in our defense strategy."

Tantai Yu said in a low voice.

Lin Jinglong had been in seclusion for three days, and she didn't want the people from the twelve cities to find an opening and attack him in the coming days.

Therefore, she must do a good job of defense.

This also requires the cooperation of the people from the Heavenly Dao Supreme Alliance.

So her men immediately went out to find Bai Yiyi.

But half a day later, the thing that Tantai Yu was most worried about still happened: they couldn't contact Bai Yiyi!

Even the other high-ranking members of the Heavenly Dao Supreme have disappeared!

"What?"

In the evening.

Tantai Yu lives in this small building.

When she saw He Zhong, one of her subordinates, her expression was one of disbelief.

"How could so many Celestial Martial Emperors from the Heavenly Dao Supreme Alliance suddenly disappear? What about their other subordinates?"

Faced with her questioning.

He Zhong said awkwardly, "The rest of the Heavenly Dao Supreme Alliance members are still guarding the city, but their higher-ups are indeed nowhere to be found."

"impossible!"

Tantai Yu found it bizarre.

How could more than a hundred people just disappear into thin air?

Moreover, they were all elites from the Martial Emperor level and above!

These are all the strongest members of the Heavenly Dao Supreme Alliance. Among the ten Heavenly Dao clans, they can all be considered elites, and they are in no way inferior to other forces except for the Suspended Spirit Temple.

Just as Tantai Yu was feeling something was off.

From the crowd in front of her, one man stepped forward. He was pale and said in a trembling voice, "Master, I think I saw where they went."

Do you have any leads?

"During the day, I met with people from the Heavenly Dao Supreme Alliance. One of them was a Celestial Elder named Chen Tianyi. He seemed to be fighting with someone. However, I only glanced at him before I fainted. When I woke up about fifteen minutes later, the person I was fighting with was gone, and my memory seemed to have been erased."

Tantai Yu was somewhat dumbfounded.

She had no doubt that her subordinates were lying.

Some top-tier experts can indeed achieve this level of skill, after all, his subordinate was just an ordinary martial artist.

Knock him unconscious instantly, then erase his memory...

"If that's the case, it means someone took action, capturing a high-ranking member of the Heavenly Dao Supreme Alliance without alerting other forces within Sky Wolf City. But what is their purpose in doing this?"

Tantai Yu glanced in the direction of the second floor.

Lin Jinglong secluded himself in his bedroom on the second floor.

It seems this is definitely aimed at Lin Jinglong!

Why didn't you come and report this sooner?

He Zhong frowned as he looked at his subordinate.

The man said in horror, "After I woke up, I really didn't see anything. It wasn't until half a day later, after listening to your conversation, that I had some vague memories."

"Who was the person who fought Chen Tianyi?"

Tantai Yu asked.

The young subordinate continued his description.

Tantai Yu commissioned someone to paint a portrait of her.

She was a woman in her thirties dressed in a close-fitting outfit. Although her face was veiled, she had a mole between her eyebrows and held an ancient bronze sword. Her posture was dashing and sharp.

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