The appearance of more than a dozen Heavenly Slaves, and their defeat and deaths, quickly spread throughout the God Realm. Chi Xue and the others naturally heard about it, and their expressions turned grave.
Of course, Chi Xue and the others weren't too worried about the Heavenly Slaves. Though they were certainly interested in them, as long as they didn't reach the sixth Saint rank and reveal their full strength, there was no need to fear attracting the Heavenly Slaves' attention. What worried them most was Fengyun Pavilion. Soul Severing Cliff and Fengyun Pavilion hadn't fought each other to the death; they'd joined forces against their enemies. From this, they deduced that everything that had happened before was an act.
That's right, Soul Severing Cliff and Fengyun Pavilion had staged a vicious fight over the Phoenix Soul Fruit. This meant the two sects were on excellent terms, far closer than Chi Xue and the others had imagined. They wouldn't even let a mature Phoenix Soul Fruit drive a wedge between them. Chi Xue and the others couldn't make head nor tail of it—or, rather, they found it hard to believe.
But Soul Severing Cliff and Fengyun Pavilion had joined forces to fend off ambushes by the God Realm's super experts and attacks from the Heavenly Slaves. That was an undeniable fact, and it proved how close their relationship was. The thought that all of it had been an act—and that Ling Tian might once again have "directed" the whole thing—made Chi Xue and the others look even more solemn.
"Who would've thought Fengyun Pavilion and Soul Severing Cliff would put on such a show and fool all of us?" Po Family Seventeenth Brother fumed. "This must be Ling Tian's scheme. It was the only way to lure the cultivators we