The Dragon Severing Family Head's face overflowed with smiles. Even with his deep composure, he could not conceal it. The reason was simple: it was not merely that the Dragon Severing Family had slapped the Artifact Emperor Pavilion across the face—they had kept the Dragon Severing Stone after doing so.
Although the Dragon Severing Stone had now been lost, if they lost the battle and still could not produce it afterward, that would be a true calamity falling from the sky.
Yet at a time like this, he could not possibly announce that the Dragon Severing Stone had been stolen. The Dragon Severing Stone was the foundation upon which the Dragon Severing Family stood, as well as their most important ancestral inheritance. Once word spread, the consequences would be unthinkable. The only thing they could do was cover up the news and urgently send people to search for it. Even if they had to turn Artifact Emperor Heaven upside down, they had to find the Dragon Severing Stone.
Naturally, his gaze fell upon those outsiders who had entered while Artifact Emperor Heaven's barrier weakened once every hundred thousand years. Since that Fallen Angel was herself an outsider, she was surely connected to them.
He could never have dreamed that the person holding the Dragon Severing Stone was right beside him. The thought had never even crossed his mind, because the Dragon Severing Family had dealt with the Dragon Severing Stone year after year, refining it constantly. They possessed a unique method for locating it, so it should never have been lost.
That was how they had repeatedly found Ling Fei. But after the Dragon Severing Stone fell into Ye Xiwen's hands, the Heavenly Origin Mirror severed their connection to it. That was the true reason they had been unable to