Because Bitter Tree had been taken into Sumeru Space by Luo Zheng, he had basically lost all contact with the outside world.
He still did not know that the sword had been lost.
When he heard Luo Zheng explain, his hand trembled, and astonishment crossed his face. "It fell into the hands of the Snake Spirit King?"
"No. It fell into the hands of an existence even stronger than the Snake Spirit King," Luo Zheng replied.
Luo Zheng then recounted the earlier battle.
When the Source Divine Blood was mentioned, Bitter Tree became just as agitated as the others from the Great Guessing Mansion had been.
The conversation thus circled back to Elder Xue, and Luo Zheng repeated what had been said before.
After listening, Bitter Tree could not calm his thoughts for a long time.
The situation's development had far exceeded Bitter Tree's expectations.
Bitter Tree's hatred for Nie was genuine. At one point, he could not understand why Nie had destroyed the Four Spirits Sect. Nie had had no reason to do so.
Now that the mystery had been unveiled, everything could be explained.
As Luo Zheng had said, the humanoids were downgraded beings from a higher-level world. Once they mastered the Irregular Heavy Sword, they would likely become impossible to defeat.
"As you said, if that downgraded being can lower worlds one layer after another, his strength should be far beyond anything we can resist. Why is he hiding behind Nie?"
Bitter Tree asked again.
"He lost part of his power—or rather, most of his power. The Irregular Heavy Sword is enough to make up for it," Luo Zheng replied. "The Deep Space hasn't been completely downgraded, and only a tiny portion of the Main World has been downgraded. That alone proves it."
If the downgraded being