The world vanished.
Xie Daoling stood in the void, with Gu Qingshan hiding behind her.
"Master, that move... it really is..."
Gu Qingshan said with a helpless look.
"That move was a killing technique to begin with, and you boosted its power twenty-threefold. Of course it's formidable." Xie Daoling smiled.
"How are things looking now?" Gu Qingshan asked.
"I killed the fake Heavenly Emperor. There was a strange bug inside his body. When I killed him, it glanced at me, then burrowed into the void and disappeared," Xie Daoling said.
"Oh, that's one of the most powerful bugs in the void. It controlled the fake Heavenly Emperor, hoping to join the struggle for supremacy," Gu Qingshan explained.
He told her what had happened, leaving out the Eternal Thought-Seizer's name so his master wouldn't be sensed by the monster.
"A bug that's still evolving? Well, if it stays away, so be it. And if it does come, it might not be a match for those Bronze Lords."
Xie Daoling sighed again and shook her head. "Those Bronze Lords have all entered the Ultimate Tomb. I'm no match for them alone, so I stayed outside to draw their attention while the Yellow Springs God Lord slipped into the Ultimate Tomb to see if there was an opportunity."
Only then did Gu Qingshan understand.
No wonder his master had been fighting those Sequence Envoys all along. She'd only been covering for the Yellow Springs God Lord.
Xie Daoling suddenly realized something and cried out urgently, "Qingshan, go! Leave the Human Realm!"
"Why?" Gu Qingshan asked, bewildered.
"Once the struggle for supremacy among the Human Realm's divine artifacts begins, you'll have no choice but to take part as a weapon of the Human Race. If you lose, you'll be utterly annihilated. Even if you