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Chapter 1248 - Chapter 1248 Chapter 516 The Ancestor Leaves No Trace Troops

Chapter 1248: Chapter 516: The Ancestor Leaves No Trace, Troops Rise at Donghuang_1 Chapter 1248: Chapter 516: The Ancestor Leaves No Trace, Troops Rise at Donghuang_1 The Eighth Yuan Gathering, the year 106,475 in the Daluo calendar.

Twelve years had passed since the shocking changes of the expedition. During these twelve years, the turmoil triggered by the expedition to the Wisdom Realm began to gradually subside, and on the surface, the entire Immortal Realm seemed peaceful.

But beneath the calm, dark currents were flowing.

At the Age Candle Immortal Court, the Original Art Dojo, the Fairy Pavilion.

After collating the clues collected from various places during this time, Han Yi couldn’t help but feel some worry within his heart.

“Ancestor, all the Daoist Ancestors of the Immortal Court have disappeared without a trace,” he said.

“Where have they all gone?”

This question was not only a puzzle for Han Yi, but for all Immortals in the Immortal Realm who noticed this anomaly.

Strictly speaking, ever since the colossal Immortal Castle from the expedition to the Wisdom Realm appeared twelve years ago, there had been no traces of any Daoist Ancestors.

Initially, Han Yi only thought that the Suizhu Tao Ancestor’s absence from the Daluo Immortal Realm was not widely known, but over the years, the accumulation of messages indicated that it was not only Age Candle who was missing. Ancestor Ling Xiao, Eastern Emperor Tao Ancestor, Taiyi Tao Ancestor, Luo Tian, and Huangting Tao Ancestor were also without any signs of presence.

Looking further back, there had been nearly a hundred years without any appearance of Daoist Ancestors in the Daluo Immortal Realm. The latest sighting of a Daoist Ancestor was a fleeting presence in the Blazing Flame Tao Court, witnessed by Luo Tian Daoist Ancestor.

What was more significant was that twelve years ago, the Immortal Castle that returned midway from the expedition to the Wisdom Realm came back, but none of the Daluo Immortal Realm’s Daoist Ancestors appeared, not even Luo Tian Daoist Ancestor, who was the most recent to reveal his presence.

This caused great confusion among the many Immortals of Daluo.

There was an Immortal Venerate who came forward to publicly state that they, too, were unclear about the whereabouts of the Daoist Ancestors, and were likewise unable to make contact with them.

However, the Immortal Realm gradually came to a consensus that the disappearance of all Daoist Ancestors was due to the same reason, or more precisely, it was highly likely that they had gone to the same place.

Over these twelve years, Han Yi had expanded his information network, often frequenting the Golden Immortal Pavilion in the Sky Candle Palace and the Original Art Dojo, establishing contacts with many Profound Immortals and even Golden Immortals. Aside from the official channels of the Immortal Court, he had also acquired some more secretive channels.

However, no matter the source, the critical information he sought about the Daoist Ancestors and Chaos was scarce and mostly consisted of uncertain origins and conjecture.

Moreover, during these twelve years, he frequently traveled between the Age Candle Immortal Court and the Xuandan Sect. On one hand, he tried to figure out why the Daoist Ancestors had disappeared because he had a premonition that their disappearance might coincide with the arrival of a crisis. By understanding the situation in advance, he could be better prepared.

On the other hand, he was worried that the undercurrents might affect the Xuandan Sect. Although Yuan Hong had advanced to Profound Immortal and they had a significant number of Half-immortals, their overall strength was still not enough. If war were to break out, their methods of protecting the sect were not that strong, and if a Golden Immortal appeared and he was not there, it might well lead to the extinction of the sect.

The dark currents that Han Yi was concerned about were mainly the power struggles within the Immortal Court. The Immortal Court was vast and complex, and not everyone considered the bigger picture. Most were entangled by interests and resources, with each Immortal Venerable Celestial Heavens and dojo seat serving as proof.

Strictly speaking, the Immortal Court was cobbled together by numerous large and small forces. Under the rule of Daoist Ancestors, they mostly only competed covertly. However, with the Daoist Ancestors gone, this balance might change.

That was what Han Yi was worried about.

However.

What he did not anticipate was that the source of the impending crisis would not stem from the numerous forces within the Immortal Court but from the Donghuang Evil Court.

In the year 106,478 of the Daluo calendar, fifteen years after the expedition’s shocking changes.

The Donghuang Evil Court was the first to wage war. Countless Demon Cultivators and Evil Immortals formed a vast army that split into three routes, marching towards Age Candle, Luotian, and the Imperial Court’s territories. Their force was immense, their demonic energy reached the skies, and they had the ambitious air of conquering the Daluo Immortal Realm and turning it into the Evil World in a single war.

For a moment, all Immortals were outraged.

It was only then that the powerful factions searched ancient texts and realized that the Donghuang Evil Court, or the Evil Clan, were not to be trifled with.

Throughout the millions of years since ancient times, the internal state of Daluo was never entirely peaceful. Even when faced with the threat of invasion from the Wisdom Realm, the Evil Clan was not entirely cooperative, often waging war and occasionally clashing with other forces of the Immortal Courts.

After all, the Donghuang Evil Court prominently featured two Daoist Ancestors, the Eastern Emperor Tao Ancestor and Taiyi Tao Ancestor, making it the largest force next to the Daluo Fairy Court.

However, now the Daluo Fairy Court was fragmented, its strongest Daoist Ancestor Void Ancient Tao Ancestor had fallen, the threat from the Wisdom Clan forces in the Outer Domain Void Battlefield had also vanished, and even the Daoist Ancestors had been missing for fifteen years.

This opportunity, to say it was once in a million years, would not be an overstatement.

When Han Yi abruptly received the news, he was shocked. But when he thought of his past experiences with the Cultivation World and the Evil Clan during his time in the Yu Heng World, and took into account the current situation of the Immortal Realm, it seemed inevitable to him.

This was characteristic of the Evil Clan; the word ‘demon’ implies being abnormal, cunning, and deceitful.

Although there were exceptions to this characterization, it held true in most cases, and it wasn’t meant as an intentional slander.

Almost at the same moment as the Evil Clan launched their attack, Han Yi received a mandatory summon from the Immortal Court. This was the second time, following the expedition to the Wisdom Realm, that he had received an order from the Immortal Court.

And this time, the summon was not issued by the Righteous Palace but came from the Golden Immortal Pavilion.

Upon receiving the order and entering the Golden Immortal Pavilion, Han Yi attracted a certain level of attention. After all, Profound Immortals with Golden Immortal privileges were not commonplace even in the whole Immortal Court.

However, this attention was not overwhelming, for besides him, there were also numerous Profound Immortals capable of overcoming higher-tier opponents present, drawn by the call of the Golden Immortal Pavilion because they too had Golden Immortal privileges.