The four High Gods each left, but what no one noticed was that a strange ripple had appeared on the ice crystal jade pendants they wore.
In the rear courtyard of the Illusion Ice City Lord's Manor, a three-meter-tall creature completely shrouded in a purple cloak suddenly appeared.
He arrived before the enormous ice cave in the center of the courtyard, activated a secret technique to open the barrier, and then quickly walked inside.
The passageway within the ice cave was broad, roughly ten meters in diameter. At its end lay a massive plaza more than five hundred meters across.
At the far end of the plaza, an icy creature with an entirely ice-blue body and a height of around three meters was leisurely admiring several hundred ice-blue flowers before him. He was the lord of Illusion Ice City, the Main God Tier expert Thousand Illusion Ice Demon.
"Lin Xue, why have you returned? Are Terrence and the others planning to cause trouble?" Thousand Illusion Ice Demon did not turn around and continued admiring the Illusion Ice Flowers.
"Master, everything has gone as you predicted. Terrence has just met with merchants from the Holy Light Merchant Guild and agreed to trade with them before the auction begins." Lin Xue did not remove the cloak and knelt on the ground as he replied respectfully.
"The human world has vast oceans. They truly want to break away from our Illusion Ice Race and become gods of the human world." Thousand Illusion Ice Demon sneered.
"Master, please allow me to kill them." Lin Xue growled.
"There are too few merchants in the city. Do not act yet. Wait until the day of the auction, when Terrence trades with the Holy Light merchants, then make your move." Thousand Illusion Ice Demon smiled.
"Yes." Lin