Chapter 477: with translation of chapter title

In the endless void.

A jet-black stream of light was frantically weaving at a speed near burning its source.

Within the stream of light, the body of the Eighth Elder of Zang Tian Ge, shrouded beneath his cloak, trembled with rage.

With one hand he hoisted the "great merit" Gu Yuan clone, and with the other he gripped tightly the two layers of immortal court relics wrapped in annihilation-source power, his divine sense roaring wildly.

"Idiot! Idiot! You complete and utter idiot!"

The Eighth Elder roared into the Gu Yuan clone's sea of consciousness, his voice filled with endless resentment after being tricked.

"Who let you toss the Yuan Du like a bomb?! Who let you fight that mysterious person tooth and nail?! My plan has been utterly ruined by you, this good-for-nothing who can't accomplish anything but only cause failure!"

How perfect was his original plan?

To have this kid secretly dump the Yuan Du into the Sheng Xian Chi, polluting the immortal court's foundation and severely wounding the Tai Chu Immortal Realm.

Then he himself would sit back and reap the fisherman's gain.

But what about now?

The Sheng Xian Chi has been drained dry, the immortal court's treasury looted empty, and the greatest benefit snatched away by some mysterious person who came out of nowhere!

And what about him?

Not only did he gain nothing, but because of that idiot's final "heroic sacrifice," he now bears a tremendous black pot capable of crushing a titan!

Those five lunatics of the Tai Chu Immortal Realm surely think he masterminded everything, and are now madly chasing him from behind!

"Elder, please calm your anger."

The Gu Yuan clone remained as unflappable as a dead pig unafraid of boiling water, and even sent a mental transmission with righteous indignation: "Subordinate may not have fulfilled your orders, but I also seized two layers of immortal court relics for the organization! This is a tremendous merit! You can't just abandon me after I've done the work!"

"You still dare to mention merit to me?!"

The Eighth Elder was so angry he nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood.

He finally understood what it means: "Fear not a godlike opponent, but a piglike teammate."

Yet, he truly cannot discard this "pig."

These two layers of immortal court relics are his only fig leaf now, and his sole hope of reporting back to the Grand Chancellor.

"Shut up! Say another word and I'll reduce you to ashes!" the Eighth Elder roared, then accelerated his escape once more.

However, at this very moment.

The five titanic auras pursuing him from behind suddenly ceased without warning.

"Huh?"

The Eighth Elder's heart stirred, and he instinctively glanced back.

He saw, in the distant void beyond, the five figures that had originally been brimming with killing intent now frozen in place, all at once.

"What the hell is going on?"

A faint ominous premonition rose in the Eighth Elder's heart.

These old foxes, what trick are they pulling now?

But the next instant.

The Tai Shang Immortal King's voice, icy yet tinged with a strange, hoarse rasp, crossed the endless void and entered his ears clearly.

"Eighth Elder! What a brilliant cicada's shell! What an astonishing stratagem!" the Tai Shang Immortal King snapped his head, his eyes flowing with golden liquid locking onto the Eighth Elder, his voice bone-chillingly cold: "To let yourself escape, you actually didn't hesitate to detonate the Eleventh Layer's 【Annihilation Source Ancestral Toxin】 as a cover, sacrificing the entire world!"

"Admirable, I truly admire it."

These baffling words left the Eighth Elder completely dazed.

"The Eleventh Layer?"

"That wasn't the backup target of their operation this time, was it the Blood Moon Netherworld dragged back by the Immortal Realm Expeditionary Army?"

Just as the Eighth Elder was filled with doubtful uncertainty.

A black jade talisman in his bosom, used to contact the Zang Tian Ge headquarters, suddenly flashed wildly with blood-red light, a shrill cry verging on a wail exploding deep within his soul!

That was the highest-level emergency alert from the Grand Chancellor!

The Eighth Elder's face changed drastically; he thrust his divine sense into the talisman.

The next second, his body, as if struck by heavenly thunder, froze completely in place.

The eyes hidden beneath his cloak widened larger than bronze bells, filled with endless shock and... absurdity!

The message in the talisman was simple, just a single sentence.

Just now, the Eleventh Layer of the Tai Chu Immortal Realm... the Blood Moon Netherworld, a top-tier great world about to be completely contaminated by the 【Annihilation Source Ancestral Toxin】...

... was forcibly taken... ripped right out of the Tai Chu Immortal Realm's territory!

"Impossible!"

"What is the Eleventh Layer?"

It is a top-tier great world that the Five Supreme Immortal Kings of the Immortal Realm jointly suppressed and remolded, and has already begun to integrate into the Tai Chu Immortal Realm's heavenly dao!

Its stability and the depth of its causal ties are such that even an existence like the Tai Shang Immortal King would have to pay a huge price to budge it.

The Eighth Elder whipped his head around, locking his gaze onto the five distant titans of the Immortal Realm.

He instantly understood.

This must surely be another plot by those old foxes of the Tai Chu Immortal Realm!

They pretended to chase him, but actually used some unknown forbidden method to shift the Eleventh Layer undercover!

They must have long ago discovered that the Eleventh Layer contained the Zang Tian Ge's Yuan Du, and therefore staged this whole affair to conveniently purge internal elements!

"Cut the crap!"

The Eighth Elder was still reeling from the news in the talisman when this bucket of filth was flung at him, and he exploded in rage on the spot,

"It's the Gu Family! It's that old coot Gu Cangsheng and his little bastard! They stole the Song Heaven Hall, and now they've stolen the Eleventh Layer!"

"The Gu Family?"

The Thunder Emperor Old Ancestor let out a snort of laughter, lightning flashing wildly around his body,

"Ba Zhang Lao, are you joking? This place is incredibly far from the Eleventh Land; even if we big shots personally came, it would still take a lot of time. How could they, right under our noses, move a top-tier great world away so quickly?!"

The Holy Lord of Jade Pool's sharp voice also rang out:

"What the Thunder Emperor said is absolutely correct! The heavenly dao's feedback—what is seeping out from the Eleventh Land—is precisely your Zang Tian Ge's purest Source-Exterminating Power! The evidence is solid; do you still want to quibble?"

"I quibble?"

Ba Zhang Lao trembled with anger, a mouthful of reversed blood surged up his throat, only to be forcibly swallowed down.

"They, right in front of you lot of trash, packed up and carried away the entire Send Heaven Palace, and you still don't believe it?!"

However, when he saw the genuine "certainty" and killing intent in the eyes of the Supreme Immortal King and the others, a chill shot up from his feet to the crown of his head.

He understood.

He understood completely!

"So that's how it is… so that's how it is!"

Ba Zhang Lao didn't get angry but laughed instead, "Good! Very good! You hypocritical old foxes! You don't not believe—you dare not believe!"

"You dare not admit that you've been played around by an unknown force! You dare not answer to those higher beings in the Immortal Realm, and in just one day you've lost the relics of the Immortal Court and the Eleventh Land!"

And Zang Tian Ge naturally became the perfect scapegoat, the one who takes the blame!