"How did the investigation go?" A phantom suddenly shot out from the communication rune in Yin Tian's hand.
Yin Tian immediately dropped to one knee and lowered his head.
A dignified upper Great Emperor had actually humbled himself so completely!
The phantom before him was a plain-looking middle-aged man, yet the longer one looked at him, the more one could sense an ethereal air about him, as though he possessed the bearing of an immortal and the bones of the Dao.
Though it was merely a phantom, the surrounding space began to shatter, exposing the pitch-black void.
"Your Majesty the Heavenly Emperor, according to my probing, Mu Qing's strength is enough to kill an ordinary fifth-order upper Great Emperor. As for his actual cultivation, he is an eighth-order lower Great Emperor."
Yin Tian answered respectfully.
His words also revealed the phantom's true identity.
The Heavenly Emperor!
However, the Heavenly Emperor's phantom frowned. "That strength is still too weak."
Yin Tian was taken aback and could not help saying, "Your Majesty the Heavenly Emperor, with Mu Qing's strength, wouldn't he be able to come and go freely anywhere in the ten realms of the universe, save for certain forbidden lands?"
Lower Great Emperors were already among the universe's foremost experts.
And the power Mu Qing truly unleashed was enough to rival a fifth-order upper Great Emperor!
No matter how Yin Tian thought about it, he could not see what was weak about such strength.
The Heavenly Emperor's phantom shook his head. "A great upheaval is about to descend upon the universe. That Evil God has an extraordinary origin. Even when several other Supremes and I joined forces, we failed to kill him. He even dragged us into a black hole, where we remain deadlocked."
"Once I emerge, I must obtain the