Chapter 1064: Losing Hear (2/2)
The conversation between the Phantasms and Fiends went on for a while, where Lamson asked more questions about Nie Tian. Only after that did he enter the teleportation portal with his people under Gett’s repeated urging.
Gett was the last one to enter the teleportation portal. After he did, the Phantasm Qi pervading the area rapidly poured into the portal as well.
After sucking all of the Phantasm Qi in its surroundings into itself, the teleportation portal burst like an overly expanded balloon, leaving nothing but lingering spatial fluctuations.
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On their way back, Hou Chulan and all of her subordinates remained silent, losing all interest in talking.
Even He Lianxiong became unusually quiet, as if his flame of arrogance had been completely extinguished by his defeat in the Domain of Heaven’s Origin.
When he had first arrived, he had held his head high. High-spirited and vigorous, he had total confidence that he would be able to help Hou Chulan kill all of the Phantasms and destroy the teleportation portal.
But now, he had lost most of his subordinates, which he had accumulated and cultivated for many years, and failed to kill a single Fiend.
He seemed clearly downhearted.
It wasn’t very long before the ancient starship that belonged to Wei Botao, the sectmaster of the Martial Spirit Sect, entered everyone’s sight in the peaceful, silent starry river.
Standing at the prow of the starship, Wei Botao’s expression flickered as soon as he spotted those who had returned.
There were simply too few of them, so few that he couldn’t believe his eyes.
“Divine Daughter!” Wei Botao took the initiative to fly off his ancient starship towards them, and asked before even reaching them, “What happened? How come only the few of you came back?”
Instead of answering him, Hou Chulan turned to Ruan Qingliu and said with a stern face, “Aunt Ruan, take a few people with you to investigate every disciple of the Martial Spirit Sect and the Earth Spirit Sect that’s at the Void domain or higher. Leave no one!”
Ruan Qingliu nodded, her face as grim as a silent lake.
Those who the Phantasms might choose to work as their informants had to be at the Void domain at the very least. Those with low cultivation bases wouldn’t even be able to get in touch with them, let alone provide them with the kind of information they needed.
This time, only the elders of the Martial Spirit Sect knew about He Lianxiong’s arrival.
The revelation of such information must have something to do with the Martial Spirit Sect.
Upon hearing that Hou Chulan was going to investigate every Void domain member of his sect, Wei Botao asked with shock written all over his face, “What on earth happened?”
“Someone secretly informed the Phantasms of He Lianxiong’s arrival. Because of that, we were respectively ambushed by a group of Phantasms and a group of Fiends, and suffered terrible losses.” After a brief explanation, Ruan Qingliu urged him impatiently to activate the teleportation portal so that she could go investigate the elders of the Martial Spirit Sect who knew about He Lianxiong’s arrival one by one.
Soon, everyone streamed into the teleportation portal in the ancient starship, and appeared in a grand hall inside the Martial Spirit Sect’s headquarters.
Soon after they did, one of the Martial Spirit Sect elders rushed into the grand hall to report to Wei Botao, “Sectmaster! The vice sectmaster has disappeared!”
A bad feeling struck Wei Botao. “What?! Gan Xi disappeared?! When?”
“Soon after the Heaven Span Pavilion experts arrived,” The man explained, burying his head. “The vice sectmaster left without leaving any messages. He didn’t even take the other ancient starship of our sect.”
“Find him!!!” Wei Botao roared.
Nie Tian exchanged a look with Jing Feiyang. Both of them realized that the missing vice sectmaster of the Martial Spirit Sect was most likely another traitor who had been secretly working with the Phantasms.
Yue Yanxi let out a long sigh and said in a low voice, “The Domain of Heaven’s Origin only has three Saint domain experts, yet two of them crossed over to the Phantasms’ side. No wonder we lost this battle.”
“Aunt Ruan, go with the Martial Spirit Sect disciples and do everything you can to ferret that Gan Xi out!” Hou Chulan ordered.
“Go with them too, Uncle Shen,” He Lianxiong said gnashing his teeth. “Find that bastard at all costs! I’ll refine his soul wisp by wisp and make him suffer for a hundred years before letting him die!”
Ruan Qingliu and Shen Jing then left with a few Martial Spirit Sect elders and started looking for any traces Gan Xi might have left when he escaped.
“I doubt that they’ll be able to find anything.” Nie Tian shook his head, thinking that even though that Gan Xi had defected and escaped, given that he was a Saint domain expert, finding him in this vast starry river would be as difficult as finding a needle in a sea.
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