Chapter 948: Setback (1/2)

Brow furrowed, Lou Hongyan jerked her head back. Looking deeply worried, she said, “Our teleportation portal has been destroyed! This is not good!”

A teleportation portal couldn’t possibly be established within a couple of days. Even with all of the necessary spiritual materials, one would have to find a suitable location to cautiously set up a teleportation portal.

The whole process would usually take two to six months.

The forger’s cultivation base and skill level would determine how long the process would take.

She knew that it had taken Huang Jinnan’s subordinates six months to set up that inter-domain teleportation portal.

Losing it meant that their communication with the Five Elements Sect would be interrupted for at least six months.

After storming the teleportation portal and killing all of the Void domain guards, the two ninth grade Lizardmen must have learned about their arrival.

She even suspected that the Lizardmen had long since learned about their arrival. Otherwise, why would they have shown up so soon after they had left that teleportation portal?

Now that they were officially exposed, it wouldn’t be long before the powerful Lizardmen from the other two realms rushed to this realm.

They hadn’t learned the strongest Lizardmen warriors’ battle prowess firsthand.

If their information was correct, and they indeed had seven or eight ninth grade warriors that were as powerful as Saint domain experts, it would be very likely that they would all die in this strange domain.

If they still had that teleportation portal, worst come to worst, they could at least send people back to their headquarters and ask their God domain seniors to come to their aid.

But now...

The moment they learned that their teleportation portal was gone, they were struck by the feeling that the hunters had become the hunted.

This feeling made everyone extremely insecure and uneasy, including the two divine children of the Five Elements Sect.

“We can run a little test to find out if the Lizardmen knew about our plan the whole time,” Lou Hongyan said with a thoughtful expression.

Then, she turned to her three Saint domain subordinates and ordered, “Spread out and check if there are still Lizardmen in the nearby villages.

“Got it!” Like lightning bolts, the three of them flew out in three different directions before disappearing into the distance in the blink of an eye.

Then, Lou Hongyan said with a suspicious expression, “Come to think of it, we’ve encountered far too few Lizardmen along our way. Many of the villages only had a couple of Lizardmen in them. I’m afraid the Lizardmen we killed were only bait that they used to cloud our judgment!”

Huang Jinnan’s expression flickered. “Do you mean that the Lizardmen discovered us long ago?”

Lou Hongyan gazed into the distance and sighed. “Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking. We’ll find out if I’m right soon enough. If I’m right, now that our teleportation portal has been destroyed, the Lizardmen won’t need to feed us bait anymore. That means there won’t be any Lizardmen in the nearby villages and cities.

“Instead, they have probably been evacuated to their capital or other safe locations by their powerful warriors.”

A hour passed...

The three Saint domain experts returned successively. All of them looked very grim.

“We did a thorough search in a five hundred kilometer radius around us, and failed to find a single Lizardman. All of the villages and cities we found were empty. Clearly, they have evacuated.”

“It seems that we’ve indeed been discovered by the Lizardmen.”

“Now, with that teleportation portal gone, our connection with our headquarters is completely cut off. We can’t summon experts to our aid, which puts us in a very bad situation.”

Upon hearing this, some of Lou Hongyan’s Void domain subordinates no longer acted respectful towards Huang Jinnan. Instead, they started to accuse him.

“You were too sloppy, Divine Son!”

“You got us into this mess!”

Knowing that he was in the wrong, Huang Jinnan didn’t say anything back.

“That’s enough!” Lou Hongyan exclaimed.

All those who were placing blame shut up instantly.

After everyone calmed down, she continued, “What’s done is done. What we need to do now is think of a way to get us out of this unfavorable situation. Now, we’re certain that the Lizardmen have found out about us.

“In fact, powerful Lizardmen warriors might be gathering to this realm from the other two as we speak. So we can’t split up again, lest they take us out one at a time...”