However, Ye Tian halted. Since he understood that the expert from earlier had been using him as a chess piece, could it be that the expert wanted him to lead the way to these people's hiding place?
That was indeed possible, but he quickly rejected the idea. Though these auras were well concealed and perhaps difficult for those monsters to detect, an expert of that terrifying caliber should still have been confident of finding them. Besides, there might well have been three such experts.
That made the theory that they had used him to find these local experts somewhat problematic, yet for the moment, he could think of no other reason.
Ye Tian began erasing the traces he had left behind before continuing deeper in. Along the way, all he saw were shattered planets. There was not a shred of life left on them; the entire universe seemed steeped in deathly stillness.
All of this had been done by those monsters. But this place should have been guarded by the strongest experts among countless universes. How had it become like this?
And what exactly were those monsters? They did not even seem like normal lifeforms, yet they were terrifyingly powerful. The moment they acted, they destroyed Ultimate Universes, like the natural enemies of all life, determined to return everything to a state of extinction.
With those doubts in mind, Ye Tian eventually found a life-bearing planet hidden deep within an asteroid belt. Vast numbers of dead planets had collapsed around it, successfully shielding it from view.
The instant Ye Tian landed on the planet, he grasped everything about it.
A great many Saints and Quasi-Saints lived on this enormous planet. Yet despair and pessimism filled their eyes. Though the planet teemed with life, it was also saturated with an aura