Chapter 537

Under the Tongtian Golden Pillar of the Eight Desolations Royal Court.

After confirming that the Blood God Sect Left Protector Fan Kai had taken people away, the Eight Desolations Wang Envoy Ju Zhang cleared the scene in the first instance.

Except for the high-level members the Eight Desolations Royal Court truly trusted, everyone else was cleared away.

The matter of the eighth-tier support powerhouses coming from the Ancestral Realm had to be kept secret before completely tearing off the mask with the Blood God Sect.

After clearing the scene, the Eight Desolations Wang Envoy Ju Zhang couldn't wait to urge the control command seal of this limit-breaking secret realm, and urged it three times in a row.

This was the agreed signal.

According to the agreement with the Ancestral Realm beforehand, upon receiving this signal, the eighth-tier experts from the Ancestral Realm hiding in the limit-breaking secret realm could come out.

At this moment, Envoy Ju Zhang was also extremely anxious to know what had happened in the limit-breaking secret realm.

How exactly had these three managed things?

Just now, Envoy Ju Zhang discovered that the Blood God Sect only suffered heavy losses in proportion, but in terms of total number and quality, the elites lost by their Eight Desolations Royal Court might be more.

So far, twenty-five seventh-tier ninth-layer peaks, only ten had come out.

Fifteen had not come out.

This loss was only a possibility.

Because there were still variables.

Otherwise, Envoy Ju Zhang would be erupting right now, suspecting whether the Blood God Sect had done something.

After urging the command seal, the group of high-level members of the Eight Desolations Royal Court began to look forward to it.

Three breaths.

Five breaths.

Ten breaths passed, and inside the vortex light gate of the limit-breaking secret realm, not a single ray of starlight flew out.

The Eight Desolations Wang Envoy Ju Zhang's brows instantly furrowed into a "chuan" shape.

That shouldn't be.

He immediately urged the command seal controlling the limit-breaking secret realm again, and still urged it three times in a row.

Envoy Ju Zhang was already somewhat impatient.

Normally, it was impossible for accidents to occur in this limit-breaking secret realm.

No accidents occurred in the previous two times, and this time, there were three eighth-tier experts from the Ancestral Realm stationed there, so accidents couldn't occur.

If there really were accidents, then...

Suddenly, Envoy Ju Zhang thought of the Blood God Sect group that had left.

If there really were accidents, then the accidental factor must be among the Blood God Sect members.

For a moment, Envoy Ju Zhang somewhat regretted letting the Blood God Sect group leave and wanted to chase them back.

But he immediately denied this thought.

If he really went to chase them, that would be forcing the Blood God Sect to tear off the mask with the Eight Desolations Royal Court.

The influence of Left Protector Fan Kai within the Blood God Sect was extremely great.

Twenty breaths later, inside the limit-breaking secret realm, still no starlight flew out, and no one appeared.

Something must have gone wrong in the limit-breaking secret realm.

The next instant, Envoy Ju Zhang turned his gaze to the three aliens Ju Qi, Ju Man, and Qing Xi who had broken through to the eighth tier in the limit-breaking secret realm.

He summoned the three to his front and began to quickly ask them if they had discovered any accidents before this limit-breaking secret realm?

The answers of the three were about the same.

All said that after they entered, they rushed all the way into the four-colored chaotic mist star region to meditate, and after two rounds, they successfully broke through until the end.

Envoy Ju Zhang subsequently summoned all the other thirty-five aliens who had come out of the limit-breaking secret realm to his front and asked if anyone had discovered any abnormalities.

This question really did elicit a clue.

"Great King, several days ago when I was practicing in seclusion, I occasionally heard two muffled thunder sounds," a seventh-tier alien replied.

"Muffled thunder sounds?"

This was considered a clue; there should be a practitioner skilled in thunder-type star techniques using star techniques.

But it was also very normal; among the aliens who entered, there were aliens skilled in thunder-type star techniques, and quite a few.

For a time, Envoy Ju Zhang didn't think much of it.

"Ju Ling, Ju Rong, you two, each take two eighth-tier experts and enter the limit-breaking secret realm to search.

Especially the three-colored chaotic mist region and the four-colored chaotic mist region; you must search carefully, and no clues can be missed.

Besides, your time is limited.

There is still more than half an hour before this limit-breaking secret realm ends.

I will urge the command seal three times before it ends, and then I will send you out.

By then, regardless of whether you have collected clues or not, you need to come out immediately," Envoy Ju Zhang instructed.

"I obey, Great King."

Envoy Ju Zhang's trusted aides Ju Ling and Ju Rong immediately took people and rushed into the limit-breaking secret realm.

The limit-breaking secret realm was extremely special; the upper limit of its capacity was not the upper limit of the number of people, but the cumulative upper limit of the cultivation of everyone who entered, which was quite complicated to calculate.

Anyway, according to his father, the number of eighth-tier experts accommodated in the limit-breaking secret realm at the same time could not exceed ten.

The total number of practitioners below the eighth tier could not exceed one hundred.

And a buffer had to be left.

Envoy Ju Zhang's father was the True Person he spoke of.

It was his father who let him come to this Eight Desolations Continent to establish merit, so he rewarded him with such a rare treasure as the limit-breaking secret realm to use.

Now, Envoy Ju Zhang felt that he had messed things up.

So he didn't dare to contact his father directly without understanding the situation.

It was a bit like a child who had done something wrong, trying every means to solve it himself first.

Without reaching a level that couldn't be solved, he didn't dare to ask his parents directly.

More than half an hour later, Ju Ling and Ju Rong brought four eighth-tier experts and flew out from the limit-breaking secret realm, without any harvest.

There certainly wouldn't be any harvest.

Any aliens and cultists killed by Xu Jin were destroyed after being killed.

Of course, many places still had a little combat trace, but in such a vast region, what could be searched out in half an hour was extremely limited.

Having no harvest was also a result.

It meant that there was no one left in the limit-breaking secret realm.

Ten breaths later, the vortex light gate of the limit-breaking secret realm began to collapse, but Envoy Ju Zhang's expression was gloomy to the extreme.

Things had already developed in the worst direction.

Three eighth-tier experts, counting the number lost by the Blood God Sect, plus forty-two elites, most of whom were seventh-tier elites, or even seventh-tier ninth-layer peaks or late-stage seventh-tier.

This loss had already made Envoy Ju Zhang's heart drip blood!

But such a volume, even sending in one eighth-tier expert wouldn't be enough.

Especially the three eighth-tier elites from the Ancestral Land, whose combat power was extraordinary; sending in a mid-stage eighth-tier expert wouldn't be enough to look at.

To kill these three, at least an existence with late-stage eighth-tier combat power had to go in.

In other words, had a late-stage eighth-tier powerhouse mixed into the limit-breaking secret realm?

Or was it a peerless genius with late-stage eighth-tier combat power but only late-stage seventh-tier cultivation?

Then this peerless genius who mixed in was very likely from the Blood God Sect.

Of course, it was also possible that they were from the Eight Desolations clan.

Envoy Ju Zhang realized that the best thing to do now was to surround the ten people from the Blood God Sect who left alive and capture them all!

But after just asking, he learned that after Blood God Sect Left Protector Fan Kai left the Eight Desolations Ancestral City, he marched at full speed and returned to Blood Moon City at full speed.

He must have been frightened.

At this time, he was already almost back to Blood Moon City.

If he chased over now, whether he could capture them all was another matter, but he would definitely tear off the mask with the Blood God Sect.

The great war had not yet started, and civil war was about to start. This was not what he wanted to see.

"Great King, the Blood God Sect Sect Master is not an unreasonable person; if the Great King can produce evidence to prove that among the ten elites who participated in the limit-breaking secret realm and left alive, there might be human spies who have infiltrated, then they should fully cooperate with the Great King.

After all, the common enemy of the Blood God Sect and us is the human race of the current world!" Elder Ju Song suggested.

"Evidence!"

Envoy Ju Zhang shook his head helplessly, "If I could produce evidence, that would be fine.

Many are just inferences and judgments; the high-level members of the Blood God Sect will not believe me at this time."

"Great King, the high-level members of the Blood God Sect will indeed doubt the Great King's judgment, but they will find it very difficult not to believe the judgment of True Person Jin Shuo.

True Person Jin Shuo is the creator of the limit-breaking secret realm; he should be able to find some credible or inferable evidence.

As long as the Great King asks True Person Jin Shuo to sign a letter, the Blood God Sect will not only cooperate with the Great King.

Moreover, the trust crisis between the Blood God Sect and our Eight Desolations Royal Court can be resolved immediately!" Ju Song said.

"Moreover, it is rumored that the Blood God Sect Sect Master is about to break through to the ninth tier.

If True Person Jin Shuo comes forward once, it is both a warning and a deterrent to the Blood God Sect.

Three birds with one stone!

I ask the Great King to think twice." Ju Song added again.

"Sigh!"

Envoy Ju Zhang sighed helplessly; he had already been persuaded by Elder Ju Song.

Indeed, if this matter were investigated by the true controller of the limit-breaking secret realm, that is, his father, it would be easier to find the truth.

It was truly three birds with one stone.

It was just that he seemed to have messed up this matter, and asking his father, True Person Jin Shuo, for help made him feel a little nervous.

But no matter how nervous he was, he had to contact him.

However, contacting his father, True Person Jin Shuo, who was far away in the Ancestral Realm across super-long boundaries, even for him, required setting up an array, using a massive amount of Star Jade Tablets to trigger it, and also required a little bit of time.

Even then, it depended on whether his father, True Person Jin Shuo, had free time.

If his father was in seclusion, or was busy with important matters, and couldn't be contacted for ten days or half a month, that was also normal.

Half an hour later, the Tongtian Golden Pillar in the Eight Desolations Ancestral City scattered a bit of golden light, shooting straight into the firmament, as if crossing the Star River.

This time, Envoy Ju Zhang was relatively lucky.

He quickly received a response from his father, True Person Jin Shuo.

After trembling and reporting the matter, on the other side of the Eight Desolations Star Array, his father, True Person Jin Shuo's voice full of pressure sounded.

【You idiot, you can't even handle such a small matter, and you still need me to help you wipe your ass; when will you truly grow up?

Truly stand on your own?】

【Child is ashamed, making Father worry.】

【Alright, I will put away the limit-breaking secret realm now and check the changes in the aura inside to see if I can find the clues and evidence I need. After there is a result, I will contact you.】

【Thank you, Father, thank you for your hard work, Father.】 Envoy Ju Zhang was shocked, but finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Blood Moon City.

Xu Jin's incarnation Shi Lie, Qi Shanye, and Mo Ji had just returned to Blood Moon City when they were separated for interrogation.

Of course, according to Left Protector Fan Kai, this was not an interrogation.

It was just that the Blood God Sect had suffered heavy losses this time, and they wanted to understand some clues through the elites who had come out alive, hoping to infer the truth.

After all, among those who returned alive, half had broken through, so Left Protector Fan Kai and the others still had to pay attention and not chill people's hearts.

For the interrogation, Xu Jin had made preparations.

The response plan had been carefully discussed with Qi Shanye and Mo Ji.

The only accident was that the interrogation by the high-level members of the Blood God Sect came faster than he had imagined.

They had originally speculated that it might be one or two days after returning to the city before they would be interrogated.

But now, just after returning to the city, before the rewards were even issued, the interrogation had begun.

The situation, or the impact caused by this matter, was much larger than Xu Jin had imagined.

The Blood God Sect also valued it much more.

"Elder, after I entered the limit-breaking secret realm, I have been practicing and meditating in the single-colored chaotic region according to the requirements, and obtained a total of two opportunities to break through, but unfortunately, both failed at the last moment.

However, the two breakthroughs allowed my star pattern rank to surge, and my combat power also surged.

I feel that in another half a year, I will definitely be able to break through to the seventh tier." The one interrogating Xu Jin was the Punishment Hall Elder Yue Qing.

According to the information obtained previously, Shi Lie was a candidate under the Engineering Hall Elder Xiao Wenfeng.

Xu Jin was most worried about Xiao Wenfeng coming to interrogate him.

Because the one who controlled Shi Lie's spiritual soul was very likely Xiao Wenfeng, and if he came to interrogate Xu Jin, he was most likely to discover the abnormality.

Of course, Xu Jin had also made the worst preparations.

Once something was wrong, he would rise up and kill and flee.

The difficulty of escaping in Blood Moon City was much smaller than the difficulty of escaping in the Eight Desolations Ancestral City.

He didn't expect it to be the Punishment Hall Elder, very likely to avoid suspicion.

This actually made it convenient for Xu Jin.

No matter how Punishment Hall Elder Yue Qing asked, the answer was the same.

And no flaws could be found.

Anyway, he had just been practicing there the whole time.

After a while of interrogation, it ended.

The high-level members of the Blood God Sect, led by Left Protector Fan Kai, held a meeting again after the interrogation.

"Interrogating the survivors who participated in the limit-breaking secret realm, no abnormalities have been found for the time being; this matter is of great importance, and I will report it to the Sect Master personally, and ask the Sect Master to come forward and pressure the Eight Desolations King to give us an explanation.

Now, there is one thing we need to decide together," Left Protector Fan Kai asked.

The next instant, everyone's gaze turned to Left Protector Fan Kai.

"Should the Thousand Star Order reward be issued normally?" Fan Kai asked.

"I personally think it should be issued according to the previous promise! If we high-level members lose our credibility, how can we make these people trust us again?

Those who can return alive are all the backbone elites of our Blood God Sect in the future," Right Protector Lin Mingshi said.

"It can be issued! But only one seventh-tier ninth-layer peak returned, so for the seventh-tier ninth-layer peaks promised, only one will be issued, and the other five will be issued to the best, according to the previous promise," Punishment Hall Elder Yue Qing said.

Once this proposal was made, all the elders present agreed one after another.

Actually, Left Protector Fan Kai asked this just to get a collective endorsement.

Among the elites who returned alive, there were two of his trusted aides; if his trusted aides obtained the Thousand Star Order, their future growth speed would be faster, and their growth height would be higher.

Under the condition of controlled spiritual souls, there would be no problems with loyalty.

It would only be of greater help to him.

Therefore, this proposal was passed smoothly.

Very quickly, the Blood God Sect elites who had just been interrogated were gathered at the City Lord's Mansion again.

Almost the moment Left Protector Fan Kai announced that the Thousand Star Order reward would be issued according to the previous promise, everyone was excited.

Including Xu Jin, all were incomparably expectant.

And no one noticed that when the reward issuance was announced, Punishment Hall Elder Mu Geng was two or three breaths late.

At the same time, in the Great Hong Chang Le City imperial palace, seeing the urgent message just sent by Mu Geng through the Mandarin Duck Seal, the Great Hong Emperor instantly felt his hands and feet turn cold, as if falling into an ice cellar!

The worst-case scenario had appeared!

(End of chapter)