God-Worship Willow had ignored the Nine-Star World-Severing Gate's blockade and scooped Zhu Yike away?
That long-range snatch left the people of the Five Domains dumbfounded, Ai Cangsheng included.
"How did it do that?"
Feng Zhongzui could not understand it at all.
Though he did not know much about the ancestor tree God-Worship Willow, he knew Great Emperor Cangsheng well enough.
Once the Nine-Star World-Severing Gate cut things off, even if Master Shou commanded the spatial Upanishad and could obliterate all nine arrows in an instant...
By the time he broke the arrow formation, Great Emperor Cangsheng would have been able to kill Zhu Yike a hundred times over.
Yet Master Shou had not made a move from beginning to end. Ai Cangsheng had guarded against nothing.
And the one who ultimately scooped Zhu Yike away was actually God-Worship Willow! "Defecting to the enemy... no, surrendering, amounts to the same thing."
"God-Worship Willow—I remember it was a severed stump, wasn't it? Old Master You cut it down long ago."
"Even if it had recovered its former strength, there was no way it could have scooped Zhu Yike... Senior Zhu, away while Great Emperor Cangsheng was unaware, right?"
Gripping the Dao Transmission Mirror as he spoke, Feng Zhongzui racked his brains but could not figure it out.
The only possibility he could think of was that God-Worship Willow had borrowed some kind of power—not only breaking the Nine-Star World-Severing Gate, but also affecting Great Emperor Cangsheng.
But what power could surpass the Ten Seat Holders in rank?
Within the mirror remained footage from Feng Xiaoshuang's side, aimed at the sky and at the Ghost Willow shadow beyond the world as it gradually faded away.
As Feng Zhongzui watched, he seemed to find an answer. Yet in a puzzled tone, he muttered, "Where