Time flew by, and gradually, teams of experts from the surrounding Life Planets began to arrive.
Over at the External Affairs Department, however, there was still no news of Marys.
Bunier and Blake's moods sank ever closer to rock bottom.
What they never expected was that the two problems they intended to deal with next—Yi Chen and the Shadow Emperor—had actually been right beside them all along.
It was just that they had never imagined the Shadow Emperor's Stealth Ability had already become so powerful that even two level 220 experts like them could not sense him at point-blank range.
Even when the Shadow Emperor used his Stealth Ability to bring a group of Soul Kings and successfully assassinate three members of the Earth Tree Race, in their view, it should merely have been because the Shadow Emperor had seized the timing and quickly approached before they set out to attack the Soul Emperor.
They subconsciously thought this way entirely because, according to the data, the Shadow Emperor was only somewhere in the Level 190s.
And the upper limit of the Local Galaxy Cluster was only Level 150.
The Shadow Emperor had remained in the Local Galaxy Cluster the whole time. Not only could his realm not make any real breakthrough, it was also impossible for him to obtain any opportunities.
By the time more than half of the nineteen teams had returned, after more than a day had passed altogether, Yi Chen finally drained Bunier's luck completely dry.
While returning the Black Luck to Bunier, Yi Chen also sent a small amount of luck back into him.
Bunier and Blake, these two level 220 experts, were both key to Yi Chen continuing to stall for time.
He definitely could not let anything happen to them because their luck had