Chapter 1092: Terrible News (1/2)
In the Realm of Shattered Earth.
Unusual spatial fluctuations suddenly came from the large-scale teleportation portal on the bottom floor of the towering palace.
In the next moment, a figure wreathed in chilly moonlight appeared in the portal.
It was Xin Qing, one of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace’s twelve elders.
As soon as she stepped out of the spacious hall, she spread her soul awareness to every corner of the Realm of Shattered Earth.
SHEW!
In a flash, she flew to the wood power region and found Nie Tian.
Nie Tian was surprised to see her. “Elder Xin Qing! What are you doing here?”
Brow knitted, Xin Qing sensed something with rapt attention, and suddenly asked, “Where’s the Heaven-equal Vine?”
“It has left,” Nie Tian answered. “Its agreement with our sectmaster has expired. Since he hasn’t shown up or contacted it in any way, it decided to leave the Realm of Shattered Earth.”
Xin Qing’s eyes were clouded by a haze as she said, “Oh... I see. It’s because of the sectmaster again. No matter what we do, we can’t get in touch with him either. I wonder what happened to him...”
Nie Tian realized that she was upset about something. “What happened?”
Xin Qing took a deep breath to calm herself. “There’s terrible news. Our battle against the Demons in the Dead Star Sea ended in our total defeat.”
Nie Tian was taken aback. “Total defeat?!”
“Fang Zhe, the second Son of the Stars, was killed, along with almost all of his Saint domain subordinates,” Xin Qing said with a grim face.
Nie Tian gasped with astonishment. “Another Son of the Stars died?! Two Sons of the Stars have died at the hands of the Demons within such a short span of time?”
After Mou Luo’s death, the sect had arranged for large, powerful forces to march into the Dead Star Sea to attack the Demons’ defensive line.
They had hoped to salvage the sect’s prestige by dealing the Demons a heavy blow.
However, not only had they failed to do that, but they had even lost another Son of the Stars?
Fang Zhe had been at the middle Saint domain, his subordinates even stronger than Mou Luo’s, yet he had perished in the Dead Star Sea all the same.
What on earth had gone wrong?
“Not just Fang Zhe, we also lost two elders to the Demons,” Xin Qing said, looking away, as if to avoid Nie Tian’s eyes. “And both of our vice sectmasters suffered severe injuries. At this point, all of our surviving forces have backed out of the Dead Star Sea.”
Another exclamation escaped Nie Tian’s mouth. “What?! We lost two elders, and our two middle God domain vice sectmasters sustained injuries?”
With a bitter expression, Xin Qing said, “All four Demon grand monarchs joined the battle. Their high chieftain, Grand Monarch Primal Demon, who’s at the late tenth grade, Grand Monarch Bloodlust, who’s at the middle tenth grade, and Grand Monarch Remote Demon and Grand Monarch Blood Axe, who are both at the early tenth grade. With all four of them appearing in the Dead Star Sea at the same time, we simply couldn’t match their strength.
“If the sectmaster of the Void Spirit Society hadn’t sensed the anomaly and traveled through space to our aid, even our two vice sectmasters might have died at the Demons’ hands.”
Nie Tian was flabbergasted. “All of the Demon grand monarchs showed up at the same time?”
“That’s right,” Xin Qing said in a low, distressed voice. “Grand Monarch Primal Demon even claimed that our sectmaster ran into big trouble when exploring the depths of the starry river, and that it’s unknown whether he’ll be able to return alive. Even if he does, it’ll be many years from now. We wonder if what he said is true.
“If they weren’t convinced that our sectmaster wouldn’t be able to join the battle, I doubt that the four Demon grand monarchs would all have come out, leaving their nest empty! (idiom: turn out in full strength)
“But of course, another reason why they did that was they were enraged by the fact that you and your subordinates had wiped out almost all of the Demon clans in three of their major realms.
“They yearned for payback, cruel, ruthless payback.”
Nie Tian fell silent after hearing these words.
He had never expected that his sect would suffer such a heavy blow in the Dead Star Sea.
Only after a long while did he recover from his daze and ask, “What happened to the grand elder?”
“He was still recovering from the injuries he sustained during his fight against Grand Monarch Dark Nether in the Domain of Nether Heaven,” Xin Qing explained. “So he didn’t join our battle in the Dead Star Sea.”
Looking frustrated, Nie Tian asked, “So why are you here?”
Bitterness filled Xin Qing’s face as she said, “I’m only here to inform you that it’s no longer necessary for you to gather strength and march into the Dead Star Sea. It seems that we won’t be able to fight the Demons in the Dead Star Sea again in the near future, especially not before our sectmaster returns.