In the desert, under the sunshade, Chen Guan lay on the chair, his eyes closed in thought.

The Celestial Destiny Star was triggered, and Chen Guan naturally sensed it as well, understanding that it was most likely Chief Judge trying to capture him.

Originally, he had already thought of a way to deal with it, and even if he were captured, he wouldn’t be helpless.

However, Chen Guan did not expect that after the Celestial Destiny Star was triggered, he wasn’t actually captured.

Now Chen Guan was sure of two points: Chief Judge was targeting him and not Zi Donglai, otherwise his Celestial Destiny Star wouldn’t have been triggered.

This means that Chief Judge already knew Chen Guan was Zi Donglai, or at least suspected it.

In either case, knowing that neither of them was still in the Grotto Heaven, both the Southern Heavenly Kingdom and Purple Sun City could be in danger.

Purple Sun City, on the other hand, should be fine for now, with Bai Xiuyan and the others present, and combined with the Imperial Palace, even if someone were to attack, there shouldn’t be a big problem in the short term.

Southern Heavenly Kingdom, however, is more troubling, without natural barriers or solid defenses, if the attackers are strong enough, it can easily be breached.

And the kingdom itself does not have someone like Bai Xiuyan as a stabilizing force, and the soldiers and generals below are not top-notch, with too many spies.

However, even Purple Sun City, if time drags on, it might not hold on either, the outcome would be the same.

Chen Guan was pondering how to respond to this situation, originally thinking if he could hold on a bit longer, he could level up the Evil Spirit Blood Sword, and solving the problem wouldn’t be difficult then.

Now the Evil Spirit Blood Sword hasn’t been practiced much, and time is running short.

After a brief contemplation, Chen Guan had made a decision, once again amending his Secret Laws.

After a vote by the Elder Council, the Ten Great Families dispatched people to form an allied force to simultaneously attack Purple Sun City, the Southern Heavenly Kingdom, Demon King City, and Abyss City.

This time they meant business, it wasn’t just a skirmish, they aimed to uproot Chen Guan and Zi Donglai’s forces in one fell swoop, or at least prevent them from attending to both ends.

Additionally, the allied force would send Ninth Awakening powerhouses to Ji Family’s Great Cave Heaven to pursue and eliminate Chen Guan and Zi Donglai, regardless of whether the two were the same person, they had to be killed.

Finding someone in such a vast Great Cave Heaven wasn’t an easy task, but it also wasn’t entirely impossible.

Although it was challenging to directly capture someone like Chief Judge did, there were some Secret Laws with tracking capabilities, though they were rare.

With the Ten Great Families joining forces, they could find all sorts of extraordinary individuals.

As long as Chen Guan and Zi Donglai were within the Great Cave Heaven or the Divine Land, they could be found, although it required the coordination of various unique Secret Laws, and couldn’t be done by one person alone.

It’s said to be an allied force of the Ten Great Families, but the real powerhouses were the Gong Family and Ancestral Court. A few other families genuinely sent capable members into the allied force, while others just sent some people to maintain the alliance’s façade, with no real fighting power, not intending to risk their lives.

Even so, the allied force’s lineup was terrifying, far beyond the previous attacks on Purple Sun City and the Southern Heavenly Kingdom.

The forces attacking the Southern Heavenly Kingdom were led by a general from the Ancestral Court, but he wasn’t from the Celestial Court Army; the main general wasn’t a part of the Celestial Court Army, having nothing to do with it at all.

This main general, Xu Mengting, was the commander of the Ancestral Court’s guardian army, highly valued by Chief Judge, considered a War God-level figure of the younger generation personally promoted by Chief Judge.

The army attacking the Southern Heavenly Kingdom was said to be an allied force, but in fact, most of it consisted of the elite young generation trained by the Ancestral Court’s guardian army.

Together with some elite forces from several other families, the army attacking the Southern Heavenly Kingdom could be considered the crème de la crème.

The situation was similar elsewhere, including Purple Sun City.

The main forces here were the elite troops of the Celestial Void Palace, along with some elite units from other families.

The forces going to attack Abyss City and Demon King City were truly a mixed allied force, a hodgepodge of various individuals.

Many within lacked commitment, with a majority not planning to fight to the death, or even truly engage in battle.

The Demon King City, however, had a slightly better situation, with some families willing to extinguish it despite having no conflict with Chen Guan.

The team dispatched to Ji Family’s Great Cave Heaven to apprehend Chen Guan and Zi Donglai was also led by the experts of the Gong Family and Ancestral Court.

Among them were two highly significant figures for this operation, Ninth Awakening powerhouses nicknamed Heavenly Ear and Earthly Eye.

These two possessed the Secret Laws of Celestial Ear and Celestial Eye, and with the augmentation of the Secret Realm and Celestial Destiny Star, if they set their minds to uncover something, even across worlds apart in the same Secret Realm, they could perceive all with a glance and hear everything with a tilt of the ear.

Yet for some unknown reason, Heavenly Ear was mute, and Earthly Eye was deaf.

Besides Heavenly Ear and Earthly Eye, the team also included a "Master Strategist" who had a divination Secret Law to ascertain a person’s location.

There were other experts present, each possessing unique skills ensuring Chen Guan and Zi Donglai had no chance of survival.

Outside Ji Family’s Great Cave Heaven, Ninth Awakening powerhouses were also waiting, ready to eliminate Chen Guan on the spot if he left the Great Cave Heaven.

Multiple parties acted simultaneously, determined to eradicate Chen Guan and Zi Donglai’s forces from the roots.

"Begin," Gong Xiangqian, the head of the Gong Family’s operations and the leader of the extermination mission, issued the command directly.

His gaze first turned to the Master Strategist, who nodded slightly, his body emanating a mysterious aura resembling divine light.

This was his Secret Realm aura, linked to the "Profound Heaven Six Yao Divine Realm." This Secret Realm aura could not only draw Primordial Energy from the Profound Heaven Six Yao Divine Realm but also enhance his Six Yao Secret Laws, amplifying their effectiveness.

The Secret Realms are ranked into three levels: upper, middle, and lower. The Profound Heaven Six Yao Divine Realm is of the upper class, providing strong augmentation to Secret Laws, markedly increasing the accuracy and priority of the Master Strategist’s Six Yao Secret Laws.

At the Seventh Awakening, the strength of a Secret Law’s priority depends on its inherent principles, but by the Eighth Awakening, due to the amplification of a Secret Realm, a hierarchy in Secret Law priority emerges.

Generally, the higher the rank of the Secret Realm, the higher the priority of the enhanced Secret Laws.

For similar Secret Laws, those with a higher-ranking Secret Realm would function first, potentially even suppressing and overriding laws of lower rank.

The Master Strategist is considered top-tier in the realm of Six Yao Secret Laws.

The Master Strategist cast his divination, throwing his Celestial Destiny Secret Treasure, the Three Talents Copper Coins, which gleamed with a mystical light as they spun continuously in the air.

After a while, the three copper coins fell to the ground.

The Master Strategist closely examined them, began calculating on his fingers, and suddenly a look of delight appeared on his face as he pointed in a direction, saying, "There it is, Chen Guan should be in that direction, approximately forty-three thousand two hundred miles from here."