"What is it, Supreme Sage?"
The hazy figure, whose cultivation aura was only at the Mid Dao Realm, turned to look at the Half-step Creation Realm existence.
The hazy figure addressed as Supreme Sage frowned. "Nothing. It is just that when my divine sense swept through the underground earlier, I suddenly detected a trace of an abnormal fluctuation.
But when I turned back and searched with my divine sense seven times, I found nothing."
Yet the moment he finished speaking, Supreme Sage Xuan Sheng's gaze fell upon the spot where the Five Sprouts Pomegranate Fruit had been dug up. A baleful aura that chilled one to the bone abruptly rose.
The instant that baleful aura rose, crackling explosions rang out from the surrounding cave walls.
"Hai Cheng, didn't your Sun Moon Heaven's Heavenly Leader say the Five Sprouts Pomegranate Fruit was absolutely foolproof? And now it has been lost!" Supreme Sage Xuan Sheng's voice was calm, yet Hai Cheng's body trembled sharply.
However, when Xuan Sheng said this, he appeared entirely detached from the matter.
"When the time comes, if the grand plans of the Divine Lords and Divine Kings are ruined, forget you—even your Sun Moon Heaven's Heavenly Leader may not be able to bear the responsibility." Xuan Sheng continued.
Hai Cheng, at the Mid Dao Realm, began to tremble as he spoke. "Supreme Sage, the loss of a single natural spiritual treasure should not implicate the Heavenly Leader, should it?"
"Should not?"
Supreme Sage Xuan Sheng sneered. "If you knew that the Divine Lords and Divine Kings had been laying out their plans for that matter for tens of thousands of years, you would understand the gravity of this matter!"
Hai Cheng's expression turned panicked. "Supreme Sage, is it not merely a natural spiritual treasure? With the strength