Chapter 1107: Mo Heng’s Breakthrough (1/2)

Temporary peace was restored to the human world.

Both the outsiders and the crooked human forces acted with restraint, and didn’t launch any more massive invasions of the human heaven and earth.

After what had happened recently, both humans and outsiders had consumed a significant amount of strength and become weary.

Humanity didn’t summon forces to launch new attacks against the outsiders in the Dead Star Sea.

From ancient times until now, humans had struggled with a problem: once the pressure from the outside was gone, they would start fighting among themselves.

When there was no threat from outsiders and crooked human forces, the four great sects would constantly have friction with each other when exploring new domains together.

Before, since the four great sects had been equally strong, conflicts had usually been small-scale, and solved in peace.

But now, the sectmaster of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace had disappeared. The two vice sectmasters, Chu Rui and Luo Wanxiang, had sustained heavy injuries in their battle against the Demons. Elders and Sons of the Stars had perished. All these had greatly reduced the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace’s strength.

Gradually, members of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace started to be slighted when they explored new domains or did business with people from the other three great sects.

The Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace’s prestige, which it had spent many years building, had suffered because of their defeat in the Dead Star Sea.

Even some of the sect’s subordinate forces started to have different voices among them.

Many subordinate forces deemed that the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace’s strength had plunged so much that it might even fall out of the ranks of the four great sects.

Facing such changes, even the elders of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace had headaches over finding solutions.

Gradually, some of the self-assured clans expressed their intention to leave the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, and join the arms of the Five Elements Sect, the Heaven Span Pavilion, or the Void Spirit Society.

Meanwhile, Chu Rui and Luo Wanxiang, the two vice sectmasters, had entered secluded cultivation upon returning from the Dead Star Sea in an attempt to recover their battle prowess as soon as possible, leaving sect affairs in Wei Lai’s hands.

Wei Lai received bad news from different places on a daily basis, and was weighed down by numerous troublesome problems.

Six months passed. Two of Fang Zhe’s subordinate domains that had become independent after his death announced their decision to leave the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, and started to play up to the Heaven Span Pavilion.

At the same time, Hong Minghui from the Void Spirit Society had his eyes on two of Mou Luo’s domains, which hadn’t announced their allegiance after his death.

Considering that those two domains bordered his domains, he arranged for people from his clan to lobby the leaders of those domains.

If it weren’t for the timely aid of the sectmaster of the Void Spirit Society, the four Demon grand monarchs might have killed Luo Wanxiang and Chu Rui in the Dead Star Sea already.

Considering this, the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace did owe the Void Spirit Society a major favor.

Therefore, even Wei Lai didn’t know what to do when Hong Minghui reached out to Mou Luo’s domains.

Meanwhile, rumors about the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace spread like weeds.

Some said that the Lord of the Stars of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace had been stranded in an unknown part of the starry river, while others said that he had already died.

Such rumors hurt the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace’s prestige further.

The Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace had never had the most God domain experts among the four great sects. What had allowed them to hold their transcendent status in the human world was their Lords of the Stars.

Every Lord of the Stars had to emerge after rounds of selection.

Most of the time, their Lord of the Stars was the strongest God domain expert throughout the human heaven and earth.

Ji Cang, the Lord of the Stars of this generation, was considered more powerful than the sectmaster of the Void Spirit Society, the sectmaster of the Heaven Span Pavilion, and the five heads of the Five Elements Sect.

He was none other than the strongest human expert of this generation.

This was the reason why the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace had been able to hold their status as one of the great sects, despite their disadvantage in the number of God domain experts.

But now, rumor had it that Ji Cang... had died?

If they had indeed lost their most powerful leader, their prestige would definitely suffer a drastic decline.

Since neither Chu Rui nor Luo Wanxiang had entered the late God domain, neither of them could match Ji Cang’s strength.

Not to mention that they had sustained heavy injuries from the Demon grand monarchs, and were in recovery.

Facing so many problems, Wei Lai placed all of his hope in the timely return of the sectmaster.

However, they still couldn’t get in touch with him.

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