Nine Lives Cave, somewhere within!
A group of several dozen people had gathered inside a deep cavern.
They were the young Eonic Gods of Primeval Hengsha, led by Jiang Lincheng.
They had already been waiting here for quite some time!
Everyone had remained silent for a long while, their expressions a jumble of emotions.
"Big Head, still can't reach him?" Jiang Lincheng stood in the center and asked in a low voice.
Jiang Datou tried again, then shook his head. "It's strange. It's not that he isn't answering the communication stone—it feels more like the distance is too great, as though he's gone somewhere else."
"Somewhere else?"
Hearing this, everyone looked at one another.
"This is the Ancestral Realm. Where else could he have gone? Don't tell me he suddenly returned to his Upper Star Ruins?"
"That can't have happened so quickly."
"Could it be that, inside that Nine Lives Fruit cavern, he entered an even deeper region?" Everyone racked their brains but could not make sense of it.
Among the crowd, a young Eonic God named Lin Zhao suddenly spoke. "Brother Cheng, he didn't slip away just because he didn't want to share the Nine Lives Fruits with us, did he? Maybe he found some way to get rid of his communication stone? Honestly, I don't think that was necessary. Most of the credit for obtaining so many Nine Lives Fruits belongs to him. If he truly didn't want to share, he could have just said so. There was no need to fool us, leave without a word, and make us wait here for nothing."
"What are you saying? Lin Feng isn't that kind of person!" Jiang Xiaobai said, somewhat angered.
"Wait a little longer!" Jiang Lincheng swept his gaze across the crowd before finally fixing it on Lin