Chapter 1025: Shifting Trouble onto Another (1/2)

In a dead realm, Sikong Cuo’s face was distorted as he yelled ferociously at Fan Wen, a Void Spirit Society elder.

“Why didn’t Senior Ji Yuanquan come to our aid in realm number fourteen? Given his cultivation base and strength, he should have been able to arrive moments after receiving your message, right?

“Do you know that three of my Void domain died because you failed to do your job?

“We were facing not only powerful experts from the Nether Spirit Society and Death Curse Sect, but also a Phantasm grand patriarch!

“Be assured. I’ll settle account with you and your sect after this!”

Sikong Cuo’s roars struck Fan Wen like a series of cannonballs, making her head spin.

As an early Saint domain female Qi warrior from the Void Spirit Society, Fan Wen was well-versed in all sorts of spatial magics.

Frowning in disgust, she said, “I told you that I couldn’t get in touch with Mr. Ji!”

Face grim, Sikong Cuo confronted her. “Your sect has a secret magic that allows their disciples in the same domain to communicate with each other. Don’t you try to fool me!”

Fan Wen didn’t know what to say. “Believe me or not, I didn’t try to get you in trouble. If I did, I wouldn’t have split open a spatial rift and brought you here in the first place.”

Hearing this, Sikong Cuo suddenly fell silent.

After spending a long while calming himself, he smiled apologetically and said, “Sorry, I wasn’t thinking right just now. It wasn’t your fault.”

Apparently, only at this moment did it occur to him that his and his subordinates’ fate was still in Fan Wen’s hands.

“Elder Fan, how many times can you still use Void Travel?” He asked cautiously.

“Only once,” Fan Wen answered. “And I won’t be able to support the spatial rift for long, so you’ll have to enter as soon as possible. Since I’m only at the early Saint domain, I can’t cast Void Travel freely. Every time I do, it’ll take a long time for me to recover.”

“I see...” Sikong Cuo dragged his voice to feign concern. “If that’s the case, take your time to recover, Elder Fan. I’ll get out of your hair.”

With these words, he walked away to the place where his subordinates were gathered.

Knowing that he was far enough from Fan Wen, he snorted coldly and spat. “Useless!”

Then, he turned to his subordinates and said, “Let’s stay vigilant everyone. That woman from the Void Spirit Society may not be reliable. From the look of things, something major has happened in the Domain of Nether Heaven. The fact that those Phantasms and Death Curse Sect disciples showed up means that we’re not just facing the Nether Spirit Society alone.”

A late Saint domain expert named Zou Qing, who was the most powerful of Sikong Cuo’s subordinates, said in a deep voice, “Master, I have a feeling that the entire Domain of Nether Heaven has become a prison now. When I examined the starry river with my soul awareness earlier, rich outsider flesh auras had already covered wherever my soul awareness reached.”

Sikong Cuo’s expression flickered with astonishment.

With a bitter expression, Zou Qing continued, “If my speculation is correct, that flesh aura comes from outsider grand monarchs! That means more than one!Only that would explain how their flesh auras could spread over the entire Domain of Nether Heaven, stopping even powerful Void Spirit Society experts in other domains from coming to our aid.”

Sikong Cuo’s expression flickered. “Multiple outsider grand monarchs?! So are you saying that even God domain experts from the Void Spirit Society won’t be able to get here in a flash like they usually can with Void Travel?”

Zou Qing sighed. “I’m afraid so.”

“What on earth is happening?” Sikong Cuo muttered, his face increasingly grim. “We couldn’t get in touch with Ji Yuanquan, and almost got annihilated in realm number fourteen. Don’t tell me that the other teams are all going through the same thing?

“But don’t worry. I’ve dealt with situations like this many times. I’ll definitely be able to get you out of here safely.”

Hearing his words, many of his subordinates remembered their previous experiences, and started chuckling.

More than once, Sikong Cuo had found himself in a perilous situation, but shifted his trouble onto others through some vicious tricks. Eventually, he had saved his own forces at the cost of others’.

Many of them had personally taken part in those operations, and thus believed that Sikong Cou was capable of repeating his success.

Meanwhile...

Fan Wen squinted as tiny sparks flashed across the depths of her pupils.

Those sparks seemed to carry information that she captured from an unknown heaven and earth, since for every spark that flashed across, she received a short message.

“Miss Pei is coming, but I shouldn’t say anything to Sikong Cuo.”

“Grand Elder Mo Heng from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace is now engaged in a fierce battle against Grand Monarch Withered Bones outside the shattered realm number nine!”