After a moment of silence, the Four Great Masters stopped searching. There truly was no trace of him. "I thought he'd retreat. I never expected him to drag Lord Mi away despite his grave injuries. Humans—one more foolish than the next."
"So we can deal with Xiang City now?"
"Hong Shuang can still reverse time. That's how humans threaten us. As long as Hong Shuang hasn't left that place, we won't touch Xiang City."
"Taking care of two threats at once would not only bring the Mitian Grand Plan to a complete end, but also stop Lu Yin from threatening our transformation and cultivation anew. Xiang Siyu, it seems they didn't take much of the Chaotic Era's good fortune after all."
"If there hadn't been a traitor among the humans, the Mitian Grand Plan would have succeeded. We'd have been finished."
"Don't underestimate humanity."
"But humanity really is finished this time. Still, I think we should find Lord Mi, even if it's only his corpse. And if Lu Yin isn't dead, he'll still threaten our transformation and cultivation anew. Don't forget how powerful his recovery is."
"Agreed."
"The only trouble is that he'll be even harder to find. Before, we searched by tracing Lord Mi's past through the Main River of Time. But that battle just took place over the Main River of Time, wiping away the traces. We can no longer find him by searching through the past."
"Then we'll search the entire universe. We can recover while we look."
Elsewhere, Lu Yin held Lord Mi as they plummeted toward a planet belonging to the Technology Civilization.
They crashed into a city on the planet. Alarms blared throughout the city, and countless oddly shaped life-forms rushed over, shouting something.
Lu Yin ignored them and looked at Lord Mi.