"You're back." Gantian nodded, stepped forward, and handed over a storage ring and a Jade Slip containing a star map.
"I completed the tasks you entrusted to me, Senior."
Liu Yuan took the items and probed them with his divine thought.
When he saw the mountain of top-grade ores, especially the dark silver divine iron shimmering with a unique spatial dao rhythm, delight flashed in his eyes.
Then he examined the star map Jade Slip.
A detailed star map of the Divine Asura Domain's western border, along with the coordinates of nearly a hundred surrounding domains of varying sizes, was clearly marked on it.
They were done. Of the three major tasks the senior had assigned, Gantian had completed two in this single trip.
"Good! Good! Good!" Liu Yuan said it three times in a row, his gaze brimming with approval as he looked at Gantian.
Liu Yuan suppressed his excitement and turned to Gantian.
"Did everything go smoothly on the way?"
Gantian gave a bitter smile and briefly recounted how they had encountered the two forces led by Yinshuang and Xuan He, and how they had ultimately been forced to use a talisman to break through.
"The Divine Asura Domain reacted faster than we expected, and they seem to have a way to track our teleportation tokens."
"We changed course several times, but couldn't shake them off."
After hearing this, Liu Yuan's expression barely changed. Instead, he nodded.
"It's only natural that you were discovered."
"The Divine Asura Domain was once a great domain of an overlord sect, after all. Its foundations run deep. It would be strange if they couldn't even manage that much of a response."
"Still, this serves as a warning." Liu Yuan shifted the subject.
"It seems our current cross-realm artifacts still have some shortcomings."