Chapter 2570

A few gray stone steps appeared ahead, cut off by a fog wall that towered into the sky. A faint white mist drifted from this wall, and a figure sitting on the steps was half-hidden within it. One could only see that he wore a long garment, a metal mask, and black gloves on both hands; these gloves looked like fabric, yet were extremely tough.

"You're wearing that... who are you planning to fight?"

The Saintess spoke; she was clearly very familiar with the man sitting on the steps.

"The Blade Demon is coming. If he loses control, I am responsible for clearing him out of the Empty Seat Banquet venue."

"He's actually coming? Rare."

The Saintess was somewhat surprised. She wasn't surprised that the man in the mist could clear the Blade Demon out of the Empty Seat Banquet venue; their combat power was similar. If the Blade Demon's style was madness and sharpness, then the man in the mist was absolute crushing dominance. If the two fought, the Saintess couldn't imagine who would win.

"Perhaps he will come; he has been relatively clear-headed lately."

The voice of the man in the mist was very magnetic and gave people a sense of composure.

"Does that mean he will bring the produce of the Black Maple Tree?"

The Saintess's eyes were shining, and the man in the mist also smiled; he was clearly in a good mood.

"Bai Ye, we meet again."

The man in the mist shifted his gaze, and those deep eyes beneath the mask looked at Su Xiao.

"Gulu's scroll, thank you."

"A small matter."

The man in the mist said nothing more, instead sitting on the steps and looking into the distance, seemingly waiting for something.

Su Xiao also sat on the steps in front of the fog wall. He already knew the identity of the man in the mist; he had long heard of his great name. He was the leader of the Phantom Troupe, rank unknown, name unknown.

Su Xiao first encountered Phantom Troupe members back in the First Tier. At that time, he thought the Phantom Troupe was a special team for low tiers, but when Su Xiao promoted to the Fourth Tier, he found that Phantom Troupe members were still active in the Fourth Tier.

It was the same in the Fifth and Sixth Tiers, and the rank promotion speed of the Phantom Troupe members was mysteriously fast. Su Xiao had never heard who the first four members were; he only knew that Gulu was No. 6 and the gray-haired man who used poison was No. 5.

In the Seventh Tier, Su Xiao hadn't encountered any Phantom Troupe members yet, but he had directly met the leader of the Phantom Troupe.

"Saintess."

Su Xiao, sitting on the steps, spoke.

"Hmm?"

"Do I count as having entered the Empty Seat Banquet venue now?"

"Of course. Stepping onto these steps counts as entering the Empty Seat Banquet venue."

"If I die here, what will happen?"

"..."

The Saintess suddenly fell silent. She was no longer the lively girl she had been, and her gaze turned cold.

"From the moment you enter the Empty Seat Banquet venue, no one can kill you, unless all members of the Starry Sky Seat are dead."

The Saintess's aura shifted from gold to golden-red, her killing intent boiling.

"So, shouldn't you pay some protection fee or something? Soul Crystals will do; the bigger, the better."

The Saintess patted Su Xiao on the shoulder. She couldn't be serious for more than three seconds; that was her exactly.

Crack, crack...

A crisp cracking sound came, and a space rift several dozen meters high appeared in the distance, slowly expanding.

Wailing and roaring, various sounds emerged from within the space rift. Two giant hands, rising with black-blue smoke, reached out from the space rift and tore the several-dozen-meter-high rift wider.

Energy bodies resembling ghosts drifted out from the space rift. They evaporated the moment they touched the air, but even so, the ghosts still scrambled to rush out of the space rift, numbering at least over a hundred thousand.

A figure walked out from the space rift. Compared to the several-dozen-meter-high space rift, this figure did not appear tall, but it was precisely because of fear of him that the ghosts scrambled to rush out of the space rift.

Tattered long clothes, messy, disheveled black hair, and those eyes so blue they were chilling—the Blade Demon had arrived.

Rumble...

Dark clouds suddenly gathered in the sky, and it turned overcast. A bolt of lightning suddenly struck down, heading straight for the Blade Demon.

Countless ghosts met the descending lightning, wailing as they dissipated in the blinding blue-white electric light. Finally, the striking lightning vanished.

"You've been struck by lightning again. Except in the Black Abyss, you get struck by lightning wherever you go."

The Saintess laughed with mysterious joy. The Blade Demon, who had been walking slowly, stopped and fixed his gaze on the Saintess.

"Leader, it's up to you; the Blade Demon has lost control!"

"Slashing you doesn't count as losing control."

"How could you~"

The Saintess behaved herself. She moved close to Su Xiao, even brushing against his shoulder. In the Saintess's view, the Blade Demon and the Law-Breaker were of the same origin; staying close to Su Xiao meant she likely wouldn't get slashed.

"Help me put in a good word; you are of the same origin."

"Regrettably, the Blade Demon has tried to kill me at least twice."

"Excuse me."

The Saintess moved to the side, keeping her distance from Su Xiao.

The Blade Demon looked at the Saintess for a while, then turned his gaze to Su Xiao. After locking eyes with Su Xiao for a moment, the Blade Demon came to the steps and sat between Su Xiao and the Leader, several meters away from both.

Su Xiao stopped activating the return permission; he was temporarily safe.

"Why hasn't the Black Smoke Man come yet? If he doesn't open the door, we can't get in at all. What an unpunctual old guy."

The Saintess seemed very bored. She suddenly turned her head to look at Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who was squatting on the steps, her smile gradually turning wicked.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang immediately sensed 'danger.' Just as it wanted to run, an arm had already wrapped around its neck.

"Woof woof (Don't touch me!)"

Before long, the Saintess and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang were getting along famously; in fact, the restless Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was also bored of waiting.

About a few minutes later, a rumbling sound came, and dust rose from the distance. Ten thousand beasts came galloping, each with an extremely powerful aura. Among the ten thousand beasts, there was a four-horned giant beast covered in fire patterns; fire elements actively gathered around it. Its size was very tall, and it stood several dozen meters high when all four hooves were on the ground.

After reaching the vicinity of the fog wall, the ten thousand beasts stopped and lay prone in rows, using their bodies to form steps.

A strong figure walked down from the beast steps. He was draped in animal skin and wore a black beast skull on his head, with two bull horns on it. The strong man's height of over five meters gave him an unimaginable sense of oppression, like the king of ten thousand beasts.

"White Bull, you are the last one this time."

The Saintess smiled and waved her hand; her status as the mascot of the Void Seat was firmly established.

"I encountered the Feather Clan on the way here. I've been hostile with them lately, so I was delayed for a while."

As soon as White Bull finished speaking, the ten thousand beasts behind him dispersed and ran off into the distance.

On White Bull's little finger, he wore a black ring with the Void script '4' on it; this was the Starry Sky Ring.

Before long, White Bull also sat in front of the fog wall steps. Only one member of the Starry Sky Seat was missing.

Looking around at the people sitting on the steps, one would find that the Blade Demon hung his Starry Sky Ring on his collar, with the Void number 1 on it.

The Leader wore his Starry Sky Ring on the ring finger of his right hand, with the Void number 2.

The owner of the Starry Sky Ring (3) had not yet arrived.

White Bull wore his Starry Sky Ring on the little finger of his left hand, with the Void number 4.

Su Xiao wore his Starry Sky Ring on the index finger of his right hand, with the Void number 5 on it.

The Saintess wore her Starry Sky Ring on her left ear, with the Void number 6 on the ring.

"Only one left. That old guy didn't come again. He used to be the first to arrive. Everyone says he can live forever, but I suspect he's already died of old age."

The Saintess leaned against the fog wall, holding up her left hand, checking if her nail polish was perfect.

Of the six Starry Sky Seat members, five had arrived by now. One of them likely wouldn't come; at least, not this time.

The members participating in this Empty Seat Banquet had all arrived, but the Black Mist figure, who was the leader of this banquet, had not yet arrived. Being late was somewhat inexcusable, but this old immortal had a friendship with Ma Wen Waltz, so one could imagine his lack of integrity.

Just as the five were waiting, sounds of wind breaking came from ahead, followed by close-range space teleportation.

"Only this area is left; we've searched all other areas."

"Even if we have to annihilate this wasteland planet, we must find that spellcaster. He can't escape; he must still be somewhere on this wasteland planet."

Shouts and spatial fluctuations appeared simultaneously. When the spatial fluctuations subsided, over a thousand spellcasters appeared, each with Eighth Tier combat power. This was the pursuit from the Arcane Eternal Star; they either didn't act, but once they did, they would never leave Su Xiao the slightest chance.

In front of the group of spellcasters was a female spellcaster wearing a white robe and a hood. She only revealed the lower half of her face; her skin was fair, her thin lips slightly pursed, and her expression was cold as frost. Mage Sage Serphilia had arrived.

In an instant, Serphilia sensed Su Xiao's aura; she would never forget the aura of a Law-Breaker.

"Found you, Law-Breaker."

An Eighth Tier spellcaster behind Serphilia spoke, but as soon as he finished, he found that Serphilia in front of him had turned and left.

"Hey, little girl over there."

White Bull stood up from the steps, his eyes turning into brownish-yellow vertical pupils. Hearing this, Serphilia stopped her steps, her fists clenched inside her sleeves.

"For the sake of that person, 5 seconds. Get out of my sight within 5 seconds. Go back and tell that person: I don't care what grudges the Arcane Eternal Star has with the Law-Breaker, but this is the Starry Sky Seat. So, get lost!"

White Bull's voice grew louder and louder, finally shaking the mountains and earth.

Serphilia walked forward in silence, her teeth clenching until they clicked. She felt extremely aggrieved; this was the closest she had ever been to eliminating the Law-Breaker. But if she dared to make a move, all the spellcasters present, including herself, would die here.

Serphilia knew that three of those four people were reckless. As for surrounding and killing them, the cost was too high; this was not a decision Serphilia could make.

White Bull and the Saintess were difficult enough to provoke. White Bull had his own power; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him the ruler of the dark forces in the Void. Over 65% of the shady industries in the Void were related to him. The Saintess was the young lady of a certain power, the apple of the eye of many old immortals. Not to mention that besides these two, there were the even more difficult-to-provoke Leader and Blade Demon.