In the Western Capital, Yan Guzhi, the Minister of Rites, sat solemnly in front of the main hall of the Ministry of Rites, below which almost all the officials and clerks of the Shanglin Yuan Supervisor were performing various spells for soul summoning, seeking, stabilization, and guiding, but still they found nothing.
Yan Guzhi frowned.
More than six hundred scholars had clearly fallen into the underworld with the Immortal Bridge Blessed Land, yet there were neither living nor dead to be seen. If they were merely commoners, it might be tolerable, but the key issue was that among them were notable figures like Daoist Guo and Daoist Jin Lu from the Taoist Sacred Land.
More crucially, Zhang You was also among them!
Zhang You was a member of the Zhang family, destined to inherit the position of Sect Master. If such a person were to die in this grand examination, Yan Guzhi's career as Minister of Rites would be over.
"Those two bastards, Xia Fanghe and Xia Shouying!"
