1382 How Did It End Up Like This? (1/2)

That day, Xu Que and his men left the mountains and rushed to the Celestial Burial Valley.

Typically, Xu Que would meet up with some old friends before he started doing what he had planned to do.

However, it was different this time round. The time that was allocated to the Chinese team was…no…the time allocated for him was almost used up!

Xu Que was very worried. Besides, he really wanted to know if Xuanyuan Wanrong had met with some crisis. He wanted to know if she had created the crisis or if it was that she had met with stronger opponents.

If it had been the case that Xuanyuan Wanrong had created problems for herself, then Xu Que would have some time to think of solutions. However, if it were the case that there was really some strong opponent who was trying to deal with Xuanyuan Wanrong, then it would be a much stickier issue. They would need to rely on the souls of Xuanyuan Qishang and Guan Chuchu to fight!

Hence, time was not on their side. There were only three days left to the day of Xu Que's death that had been prophesied.

BANG!

Very soon, Xu Que and his people appeared outside the Celestial Burial Valley.

Based on their powers, they didn't have to spend too much time traveling that distance.

However, now that they had stopped and stood outside the Celestial Burial Ground, they looked solemn and were frowning.

”How did it end up like this?”

”Was there a war here?”

”No wonder that when we arrived, I felt that the place seemed very dead. I thought maybe that people had moved on, but now it seems as if something is not right!”

Xu Que, Duan Jiude, and Buttface were all startled.

Liu Jingning, meanwhile, couldn't believe her eyes.

The Celestial Burial Valley looked as if it was suffering from the aftermath of a war. There were potholes everywhere, and they could see traces of where the troops had been attacked. Scarlet bloodstains remained in some places, and broken pieces of artifacts were scattered everywhere. The only thing that was missing was cultivators' corpses.

One could easily see that not only had there been a huge battle here, but also there must've been at least 100,000 people who participated in the battle. All levels of cultivators seemed to have joined in the battle.

They had arrived here from the far mountains. Now they realized that they hadn't sensed the presence of cultivators in some of the places that they had once been familiar with. Some areas felt quiet, while others felt dead. The entire East Continent seemed too quiet, vastly different from how it had been bustling before they left.

”Could it be that there was some unique treasure that caused them to fight each other like this?” Mo Junchen surveyed the damage on the battlefield and made a guess.

”That can't be it!” Xu Que shook his head. He frowned. ”I feel certain that there have been some intruders who came here to attack. This place carries a scent.”

”That's right, a familiar scent.” Buttface nodded.

Duan Jiude was stunned. ”What scent? Why haven't I, the old man, smelled it?”

Xu Que and Buttface exchanged a look and exclaimed at the same time, ”Scent of seafood!”

”Sea…seafood scent?” Duan Jiude was shocked.

Liu Jingning too was stunned momentarily. ”Seafood? Perhaps someone from the North Sea came over? But…that can't be. The Lord of the Roc tribe from the North Sea is holding the fort there. The Demonic Beast Clan from the Sea killing in the East Continent!”

”Actually, besides the North Sea, there is also another place where a huge number of the Sea Tribes are hiding.” Xu Que said.

He already had a rough idea of who the intruders were who had come here to attack.

Even the crisis that Xuanyuan Wanrong had met with was related to those intruders!

”Young chap, could it be those people from the Fire Country?” Buttface understood quickly what Xu Que was thinking and asked.

”The probability is very high.” Xu Que nodded.

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Back in the day, when they had returned to the Fire Country from the Water Nation, he had captured a few Sea Tribes from the Palace. All of them, including Geoducks and Octopus, had appeared as humans in Fire Country to cause trouble. However, they had been killed by him in the end.