Im Je-seong had entered the underground caves and gone missing, and Upper Clarity Venerable was running rampant. At first, they suspected he might be using this incident as a pretext to throw his weight around, but once they learned how Upper Clarity Venerable had rampaged after arriving at the ancient battlefield, there was no room left for doubt.
He hadn't just targeted the demonic cultivators and heretical cultivators listed on the bounty board. If someone rubbed him the wrong way, he lashed out indiscriminately. It was, quite literally, a rampage, and clearly a genuine outburst.
It seemed Im Je-seong had truly disappeared. Upper Clarity Venerable’s lifespan was nearly at its end, and Im Je-seong was the family head who bore the responsibility of reviving the Im family after him. With such a successor vanishing in a place like that, it was understandable that Upper Clarity Venerable might lose his reason.
‘Still, reacting this severely over a mere disappearance is a bit strange.’
Moreover, even calling it a disappearance, it had only been a year since contact was lost. Among cultivators who entered the underground caves, there were rare cases of those who returned safely after being out of contact for over a year.