190: Nine alarm bells
Yunzhou Prefecture City, the night was as deep as ink.
Although the Northern Barbarian army was at the border, as the prefecture city, it still maintained basic order.
The Regional Governor's Manor and various government offices were brightly lit, with countless official documents and military intelligence reports flying in and out like snowflakes.
The headquarters of the Yunzhou Immortal Conferring Department, located in the east of the city, had its gates tightly shut, with several high-hanging lamps emitting a ghastly white glow.
Inside the hall, memorial tablets of the gods of Da Gan were enshrined, incense smoke curled up, and two Cultivators on duty were dozing off.
Just then.
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A faint, almost imperceptible dim yellow light shot straight into the side hall where the statues of the Yin Gods were enshrined.
That was the unique message-transmitting divine light of the Earth God, carrying the earthy scent of the Earth Veins and a sense of extreme urgency.
As soon as the yellow light entered the hall, the originally quiet hall suddenly underwent a strange change.
Buzz!
On the altar table, the Life Lamps representing the Yin Gods monitoring various places swayed in unison, their flames dancing wildly, and the upright incense candles burned out in an instant.
Immediately following that.
A bronze bell hanging in the Fengxian Division began to swing violently without anyone striking it.
"Dang! Dang! Dang..."
The rapid tolling of the bell echoed throughout the Fengxian Division.
Nine tolls!
The last time the same bell rang was when the Northern Barbarians invaded the south.
"What's going on?!"
"Nine tolls, has the border defense line been breached by the barbarians!"
All the Cultivators and Yin Gods within the Fengxian Division were so startled by the bell tolling that their Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering.
From the back hall, several streaks of light soared into the sky.
The experts remaining at the Fengxian Division first looked towards the border, but saw no signs of any powerful figures.
A middle-aged Yin God dressed in official robes with a gloomy expression floated ethereally into the side hall.
He was the Magistrate on duty at the Yunzhou Immortal Conferring Department, named Lu Changfeng, and his Shinto cultivation was quite profound.
At this moment, Lu Changfeng's face was filled with horror and gravity.
"Where did this warning come from? To actually trigger nine tolls of the bell?"
His gaze was like lightning as he instantly locked onto that faint yellow light.
Lu Changfeng did not dare to be negligent; he reached out and beckoned, and the yellow light fell into his palm like a living thing.
His Divine Thought probed into it.
The next moment.
The Yin God Magistrate's body trembled uncontrollably, and his already pale face turned even more deathly white instantly, as if he had seen the most terrifying thing in the world.
"Prince... Prince Ning!?"
Lu Changfeng's voice was trembling, his teeth chattering: "The White Lotus Sect evildoers have gathered, intending to assassinate Prince Ning Your Highness in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains!"
This short sentence almost scared him into an unstable Divine Soul.
Prince Ning!
A genuine Da Gan royal Bloodline, a prince quite favored by the current Emperor.
There were even rumors that he might be one of the contenders for the throne.
If such a noble person had an accident in the Yunzhou region, let alone their Fengxian Division, the entire Yunzhou officialdom would likely be purged.
Especially the Fengxian Division, one of the Three Departments.
Controlling the Yin Gods of various places, they were, in a sense, an intelligence agency with eyes all over Yunzhou.
If Prince Ning were attacked, the Fengxian Division would certainly be the first to bear the brunt!
At that time, every single person in the Yunzhou Immortal Conferring Department would lose their heads, and perhaps even their Divine Soul would be cast into purgatory, never to be reincarnated!
"These lunatics! These lunatics of the White Lotus Sect!"
Lu Changfeng growled lowly, finally understanding why there were nine tolls of the alarm bell.
"My Lord, what has happened?"
Several Cultivators and Yin Gods arrived, and seeing Lu Changfeng's ferocious expression, they were too scared to even breathe loudly.
"Something big has happened! A catastrophe that would collapse the heavens!"
Lu Changfeng turned around abruptly and shouted sternly, "This matter must not be leaked; violators will be executed!"
The matter was of great importance, and he, a mere Magistrate, did not dare to make decisions at will.
Otherwise, once it blew up, he wouldn't be able to bear the responsibility at all.
The current priority was to immediately deliver the intelligence to the front line and leave it to the several presiding lords in the military camp to decide.
"I must go to the front line!"
"You all guard the Fengxian Division well, activate the grand array, and strictly guard against evildoers taking advantage of the chaos!"
Before his voice had even faded, Lu Changfeng's figure had already turned into a wisp of blue smoke, diving into the hard bluestone floor like a swimming fish.
He escaped into the Earth Veins, traveling as fast as a meteor towards the front-line positions.