# 1564
Chapter 1560 - An Qingyu Missing
"Disappeared? How is that possible?"
Guangchengzi hurried to this courtyard, his gaze fixed on the ruins at the center, his expression grim.
"Was it the Cthulhu Faction who took him?" A Great Xia god arrived from another celestial gate direction, asking in a deep voice.
"Were there any anomalies on your side?"
"Besides the continuous descent of Migo, nothing else broke in."
"Same here on our end."
"Who could bypass Heavenly Court's defenses without anyone noticing... even an ordinary Supreme God couldn't do that, right?"
"It's not necessarily an external invasion." A Great Xia god landed on the ground, closing his eyes to carefully sense the area. "There's residual temporal-spatial disturbance here, the same as what emanates from Migo. It should have been an unconscious temporal-spatial disturbance that suddenly intensified, teleporting them both somewhere else."
"His unconscious temporal disturbance was that strong? I remember it was only the size of a peach this morning."
"With so many Migo sacrificing their lives to the Gate of Truth, who knows how much it's recovered."
"That still can't grow so quickly..."
"Let's not argue." Guangchengzi spoke solemnly. "Since it wasn't taken by the Cthulhu Faction, they should still be somewhere on Earth. We need to find them before Migo does."
The Queen Mother of the West stepped out from the void, speaking slowly, "The temporal-spatial disturbance caused by the Key to the Gate only it knows where it connects to. The Earth is so vast—finding them will take considerable time..."
"What if during this time, Migo suddenly descends beside him?"
The gods fell into silence.
Just then, the Jade Emperor, who had been frowning in contemplation, lightly parted his lips, and his resonant voice echoed in the minds of all Great Xia gods:
"All ministers, depart immediately. Search outward from the surrounding seas. We must safely retrieve them before An Qingyu is taken by Cthulhu Faction organisms."
"Yes!"
The Three Purities were absent, so the Jade Emperor commanded Heavenly Court. At his command, the Gods of Great Xia transformed into hundreds of streaks of light, darting from Heavenly Court in different directions, like a meteor shower streaking across the night sky, illuminating the darkness as bright as day.
"Jiang Ziya."
"Here."
"Contact the Night Watch and have them dispatch personnel to search as well."
"Yes."
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"An Qingyu is missing?!"
Inside the Commander-in-Chief's office, Zuo Qing abruptly stood up from his seat.
"That's what the Great Xia gods said. The Gate of Truth is suspected to have gone into violent upheaval, swallowing them through a temporal rift... Now we don't know which corner of Earth they've been teleported to." The secretary said helplessly.
Zuo Qing's brow furrowed tightly as he began pacing around the office.
"Gate of Truth upheaval? Why now of all times... Quick, have Lu Wuwei set out immediately to find An Qingyu! Notify the other Human Apex to conduct a sea search!"
"Understood."
"Also..." Zuo Qing paused. "Inform Wang Mian to prepare for time reversal. If something happens to An Qingyu this time, have him return to the past and alert Heavenly Court to intervene directly when the Gate of Truth goes into upheaval."
Secretary Min Junliang was slightly stunned. "Since that's the case, why not directly have Wang Mian reverse time? Why mobilize such a large-scale operation?"
"Wang Mian's lifespan is running out. Every time he changes history, it accelerates his death... The Chrono Outlaw is too important to Great Xia, we must conserve him as much as possible. If we can find An Qingyu in time, he naturally won't have to deplete his lifespan."
"Alright, I'll go right away."
Min Junliang hurried out of the office.
One minute later, Lu Wuwei hung up the phone, got on an electric scooter, put on his helmet, and looked at the delivery order in his hand, sighing helplessly:
"Another overseas order..."
A flash of sword light slashed through the clouds in an instant, landing precisely beside Lu Wuwei. Zhou Ping stepped out, dressed in black, a sword case on his back: "How long will finding him take?"
"This... hard to say, as you know, while I can locate people, my speed has never been fast." Lu Wuwei patted the electric scooter beneath him.
Zhou Ping's mouth twitched slightly, directly abandoning the idea of following behind Lu Wuwei. By the time he wobbled on that electric scooter to the location, it would be enough time for him to fly across half a continent.
A sword glare shot into the clouds. Watching Zhou Ping's departing figure, Lu Wuwei quietly pressed the rubber duck onto his helmet, slowly floating toward the sky...
At the same time, the other Human Apex also entered the Mist, beginning to search for An Qingyu.
If it were before, An Qingyu would never have imagined that his disappearance could alarm the entire Heavenly Court and Great Xia, causing all high-ranking combat forces to mobilize in search... Nor would he have imagined that this disappearance would overturn his entire life.
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In a gray, hazy mist, An Qingyu slowly opened his eyes.
Before him still stood that familiar ancient pavilion, but beyond the pavilion was no longer the immortal-herb-imbued Heavenly Court courtyard, but a desolate architectural ruin, like the remnants of a city that had fallen to the Mist over a century ago.
The ancient pavilion sat in a sunken gravel pit, its corners torn apart by something, swaying precariously in the cold wind. Within the rolling mist, a black coffin lay quietly by his side.
An Qingyu stared at the scene before him, frozen in place.
"Where is this?" From within the black coffin, the ghost-form Jiang Er slowly drifted out. Seeing the ravaged ruins around them, she asked in bewilderment, "Was Heavenly Court destroyed?"
"...No, this isn't Heavenly Court."
An Qingyu surveyed the surroundings. "Judging from the architectural style and the degree of weathering, this should be the ruins of some city in the Mist, most likely in Africa..."
"How did we end up here?"
An Qingyu didn't answer. He bent down to examine the edges of the ancient pavilion, the marks torn apart by the temporal rift, his brow slightly furrowing...
"Temporal disturbance... from myself?" An Qingyu's expression carried a hint of confusion. "But the magnitude of the disturbance clearly wasn't this large before... Could it be that I unconsciously amplified it while sleeping?"
At one moment, An Qingyu had also considered the possibility that someone had actively taken him. But setting aside what kind of being could bypass Heavenly Court's defenses, if the target was himself, why not directly kidnap or kill him, instead of casually abandoning him in some desolate wilderness?
While An Qingyu was contemplating, Jiang Er had already drifted around the vicinity and returned to his side:
"There are no other traces nearby. This place has been abandoned for a long time."
"The priority now is to quickly establish contact with the Great Xia gods. We've ended up in such a remote place—if Migo descends at this moment, that would be terrible." An Qingyu's mind was extremely clear as he spoke quickly,
"Jiang Er, can you connect to Great Xia's signal?"
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