Chapter 993: The Whole Story (2/2)

They had activated a number of spatial rifts, and transmitted their coordinates to the other outsiders.

Just like that, the outsiders had found a way to return to the floating continent.

The dragons and the Ancientbeasts had also left teleportation portals behind.

As the sealing power over the teleportation portals had faded, they had returned to service as well.

The dragons and Ancientbeasts had sensed the changes in their teleportation portals, and had thus planned to revisit the floating continent to recover the dead members they had left here back in the day, so that their ninth and tenth grade seniors would be able to reignite the flames of their life force and bring them back to life.

They hadn’t expected that the outsiders had beaten them to it.

“So the purpose of you coming here was to recover the dead members that were buried here?” Nie Tian said, looking somewhat puzzled. “But why was it just the two of you?”

McEleney pondered in silence for a few seconds before answering, “We didn’t know what changes this floating continent had gone through, so we were just here to check out the situation. We planned to bring our powerful members here later. You might not be familiar with this, but every time our ninth or tenth grade seniors try to make a breakthrough in their grade, it’ll take countless years.

“Sometimes, even their naps can last several years.

“So we didn’t want to interrupt them before we had a good understanding of the situation on this continent.”

After a moment of pondering, Nie Tian asked, “So do you mean your people don’t intend to move back here?”

“Of course not,” Stella, the ninth grade ice phoenix, said without thinking. “Even after hundreds of thousands of years of recovery, the floating continent is still far from returning to its original state. Compared to it, the domains we now live in are much better for our subsistence and development. Why would we want to limit ourselves by coming back here?”

Only after leaving this continent had their people realized how vast this starry river actually was.

There were countless domains in this boundless universe, and many that suited them.

If this floating continent had returned to its original state, they might consider moving back to their ancestral home.

However, it was now far from getting there.

“My sect, the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, also...” Nie Tian said in a low voice.

McEleney seemed to see right through his mind as he explained, “The Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace’s unique incantations give them advantages in exploring this vast starry river. I suppose your sect’s founders discovered this place while they were exploring a remote corner of the starry river, but I don’t know who it was exactly.”

Gazing into the depths of the gray clouds, he added, “One thing I’m sure of is that whoever found this place found out about the Star Behemoth too. He must have made some kind of deal with it, so that it agreed to allow members of your sect with low cultivation bases to come here every once in a while.

“Those members could only channel a very limited amount of the energy of heaven and earth here. And even if they got into fights here, the damage they could cause the floating continent would be next to nothing.

“However, if Saint or God domain members were to act unruly here, they’d damage the structure of the floating continent and set its recovery back.

“The Star Behemoth wouldn’t allow this to happen.”

After hearing his words, Nie Tian pondered briefly, then nodded in agreement.

He knew a bit about the agreement between the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace and the Star Behemoth. Every hundred years, the Star Behemoth would allow a group of Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace disciples to take on a trial on this floating continent.

All of those disciples would be young, and have low cultivation bases. No matter how they sparred with each other, they wouldn’t cause any damage to the foundation of the continent.

The Star Behemoth had already viewed this continent as its habitat. The wondrous features of super-large-scale realms allowed this realm to channel energy from the starry river when it was slumbering.

Therefore, by making this agreement with the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, not only had the Star Behemoth ensured the continuous recovery of the floating continent, but it had also solved the problems it might face from the outside world.

“Will the outsiders be able to open new spatial tunnels in the future?” Nie Tian asked.

McEleney nodded. “That’s a possibility, but since they had eight spatial tunnels destroyed and suffered quite some losses this time, they probably won’t try again in the near future. Besides, now that they know the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace and we are all watching this place, they’ll be more careful.

“Even if they open new spatial tunnels, it’ll take them a long time. During that time, we’ll seek revenge with those two Demon grand patriarchs! Their days won’t be easy. Trust me!”

This conversation deepened Nie Tian’s understanding of what had happened in this realm, and the Star Behemoth’s arrangements.

He suddenly turned to Stella and said, “Years ago, you took an ice-sealed girl away from the Realm of Maelstrom. What happened to her in the Shatter Battlefield? Also, did you see an old man deriving enlightenment from the river of time in the depths of the Shatter Battlefield?”

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