After hearing him out, the old man could not help but raise his brows. This truly was momentous news! He looked gravely at Zhou Heng and said, "Is everything you just said true?"
"Not a single word is false!" Zhou Heng said solemnly.
"Come with me!" The old man grabbed Zhou Heng and swept away through the air, soon arriving at an important area of Great River Academy. Even he did not dare barge in here. He obediently had someone announce his arrival.
Only then did Zhou Heng learn that the old man was called Lu Yanqing, though that was hardly important.
Before long, Zhou Heng was led into an enormous conference room. More than a dozen Celestial River Realm experts were already seated within, all of them Heavenly River Emperors. Their combined pressure was so overwhelming that a Star Thearch would fall to their knees the instant they entered.
Neither servile nor overbearing, Zhou Heng stood solemnly, straight as a spear.
"Tell us the entire matter again, from beginning to end!" Lu Yanqing said.
Zhou Heng nodded and repeated, word for word, what he had told Lu Yanqing earlier. He had rehearsed this account countless times on the way back, so there was naturally no chance of any slip.
"Comet Realm!"
After Zhou Heng finished speaking, the Heavenly River Emperors all fell into shocked silence.
This was a realm capable of crushing a Heavenly River Thearch. If not for the denser spiritual energy within that warped space, the Comet Realm demonic beasts inside would likely have already rushed out and slaughtered indiscriminately. But demonic beasts were demonic beasts, while humans were humans—they were entirely different.
Demonic beasts preferred to claim land and rule as kings, with a strong sense of territoriality. Humans, however, would never willingly be confined to