Thinking of this, Li Yun immediately became anxious too.

It wasn't that he had also become greedy for some treasure.

With his current level, honestly, ordinary treasures no longer caught his eye. Even the best treasure wasn't as satisfying to him as resources that could improve his cultivation.

But how should he put this matter?

He was someone who had stolen from an Immortal Sovereign's treasury. If some incredible treasure really slipped away right under his nose, he would truly be a bit unwilling to accept it.

If he hadn't encountered such a thing, then so be it.

He would just treat it as a spectacle completely unrelated to him and just watch.

Since he had encountered it, there was no reason not to figure out the situation.

Li Yun hesitated for a moment, but ultimately decided to stay and investigate first. At the very least, it wouldn't be too late to leave after figuring out what that Great Void Holy Son was actually after.

...

Kun Huang Island.

The several Profound Immortals responsible for staying behind gathered in a hall in front of the Kun Emperor Palace, also looking at each other in dismay.

"Damn it, what exactly is going on?"

"Why is everyone outside spreading rumors, saying that the treasury of our Kun Huang Island has been stolen by the Shadowless Clan?"

"Who the hell is looking for death, gossiping wildly outside?"

"If our Kun Huang Island really was stolen from, how could we not have found a single trace?"

The leading Profound Immortal, Meng Shuijing, had a face full of anger.

This kind of news suddenly spreading for no reason made Kun Huang Island the subject of much discussion. Even if this matter was false, once the Great Kun Immortal Emperor found out, they would still not escape punishment.

After all, whether true or false, such a matter would damage the reputation of Kun Huang Island.

As one of the Three Great Immortal Emperor Islands in the Profound Wave Sea Domain, with something like this happening, who knows how many people would be secretly gloating.

And they couldn't possibly stop these rumors by coming out and proving that Kun Huang Island hadn't been stolen from at all, and that everything was just a rumor, could they?

Who would believe that?

Since ancient times, everything is easy to prove, except self-proof which is the most difficult. They wouldn't not understand this principle.

Once caught in a storm of public opinion.

There would be all sorts of talk.

No matter how perfectly the self-proof was done, even if the treasury was opened for everyone to see, there would still be people who would think you were guilty, otherwise, the clear would remain clear and the turbid would remain turbid, why would you need to refute the rumors?

"Damn it, ever since the Immortal Emperor Lord left, we haven't slackened for a moment. No outsiders have come to Kun Huang Island at all, how could it have been stolen from?"

"Even if it was stolen from, it wouldn't have been stolen without any of us knowing, right?"

"We aren't dead people!"

"Someone is definitely deliberately targeting our Kun Huang Island. They want to take advantage of the Immortal Emperor Lord's absence to stir up rumors and weaken the reputation of our Kun Huang Island."

"After all, many people know that the Immortal Emperor Lord personally left on the Divine Feather Flying Boat three years ago. If he were still on Kun Huang Island, this kind of rumor couldn't spread at all, and even if it did, no one would believe it."

"But because of this, we are suffering greatly!"

"Damn it... We must act quickly to find the people who are privately gossiping and maliciously slandering our Kun Huang Island, and quell the rumors as soon as possible, otherwise we won't be able to explain ourselves to the Immortal Emperor Lord."

"That's right!"

"We must find the person!"

"Next, we will open the island-protecting Immortal Array and send some people out to search for clues..."

...

Meng Shuijing and the other Kun Huang Island Profound Immortals reacted quickly. After concluding that this was a rumor targeting Kun Huang Island, they didn't fall into the trap of self-proof but decisively decided to act and apprehend the person spreading the rumors. Meanwhile, on another small island, things also exploded.

This island is called Spirit Serpent Island.

On the surface, it seemed like a very ordinary immortal island. The strongest on the island was just a small Clan with only a True Immortal in charge.

On the entire Spirit Serpent Island, the total number of cultivators was less than eight hundred thousand.

By all appearances, it was just an inconspicuous small island.

Small islands like this were everywhere in the Profound Wave Sea Domain, countless of them.

But in reality.

A branch of the Shadowless Clan was actually lurking on this Spirit Serpent Island.

The Shadowless Clan in the Saint Heaven Realm was definitely not the strongest race, but in terms of fame, they were absolutely first-rate.

Anyone from the Saint Heaven Realm might not be able to name an Immortal Emperor, but they couldn't say they hadn't heard of the Shadowless Clan; otherwise, they would just be laughed at.

Not even knowing about the Shadowless Clan, what kind of cultivator from the Saint Heaven Realm were they?

The main reason the Shadowless Clan was so famous was their extreme proficiency in theft. They possessed a naturally special spatial Physique, born with the ability to travel through layers of space silently and without a trace, and could even use spatial power to isolate various Causality.

This ability made many members of the Shadowless Clan naturally fond of stealing.

From Human Immortals to Immortal Emperors... the number of people who had suffered theft from the Shadowless Clan was countless.

Many people would grit their teeth in hatred as soon as the three words "Shadowless Clan" were mentioned.

They wished they could find the lair of the Shadowless Clan and completely exterminate them.

But there was no way.

The Shadowless Clan was too cunning. Firstly, they didn't have a fixed lair, making it very difficult for anyone to wipe them out in one go.

Secondly.

Although the Shadowless Clan members enjoyed stealing, they didn't just steal randomly. Before each theft, they would carefully research the target and thoroughly understand their background.

They would only act after confirming that even stealing from the target wouldn't lead to serious consequences.

This meant that although their notoriety spread throughout the Saint Heaven Realm, they had never actually provoked truly irresistible strong enemies.

This allowed the Shadowless Clan to thrive in the Saint Heaven Realm.

Of course.

Nothing is absolute.

If you often walk by the river, your shoes will eventually get wet.

The Shadowless Clan was enthusiastic about stealing, and there were times when things went wrong.

This branch of the Shadowless Clan hidden on Spirit Serpent Island had something go wrong when stealing from a top-tier Immortal Sovereign eight hundred years ago, directly resulting in their leader, who was also a top-tier Immortal Sovereign-level figure, being trapped and killed.

The entire branch clan of over three thousand people was slaughtered, leaving only a mere twenty to thirty people who escaped and hid on Spirit Serpent Island in the Profound Wave Sea Domain over a hundred years ago.

For nearly one hundred and twenty years, this branch of the Shadowless Clan, whose strongest member currently only had Immortal Sovereign second-level cultivation, had never shown themselves again after hiding on Spirit Serpent Island.

They were afraid that the people who had plotted against their clan back then would discover them and continue pursuing them to exterminate them.

Furthermore, they strongly suspected that the reason they were plotted against back then was because they were betrayed by other branches of the Shadowless Clan, so they didn't dare to contact other Shadowless Clan members again.

They planned to hide on this Spirit Serpent Island for a while longer.

After the crisis had completely passed, they would then find a way to settle the score for being plotted against back then.

But who would have thought, overnight, out of the blue.

The huge black pot of having stolen the Kun Huang Island Immortal Sovereign's treasury had actually fallen squarely onto their heads.

One can imagine how angry they were.

"Damn it, who is it?"

"Who the hell is plotting against us? We're already like this, and they still won't let us go?"