The past several hours had been an emotional roller coaster for the staff at the Special Investigation Unit's headquarters, especially Mou Yue.0

First, the rescue team had been wiped out on Saros's vast snowfields. Qing Yanzi and several Daoist elders were then surrounded while trying to save people. Shortly afterward, a large-scale battle involving over a thousand cultivators had erupted.0

The foreign cultivators soon retreated, and it seemed the large reinforcements that the Hua Republic's cultivation world had dispatched would arrive in vain. Only two elite teams managed to catch up to the foreign corrupt cultivators who had provoked the Hua Republic.0

Qing Yanzi and his companions led one of the teams north, barely managing to catch up to more than thirty stragglers. Meanwhile, his disciples led the other team to the west. Using his Sword-Controlling Art, Wang Sheng cut down two groups of foreign corrupt cultivators in succession. He even triggered a heavenly tribulation to seal off a city in Saros, wiping out all the corrupt cultivators who had taken refuge there.0

The retaliatory pursuit had more or less ended by then. The bulk of...0