Xiao Xiao, the young lady of the Endless Fire Domain, had left after all.
She said she was going to find her younger brother, Xiao Lin, and complete some secret mission. It was an exceptionally important task, personally entrusted to her by her father, the Flame Emperor.
Since it had been the Flame Emperor's instructions, Mu Chen hadn't felt comfortable asking too many questions.
Of course, if His Highness the Heir had asked just one more question, he would have learned that Xiao Xiao was heading to the Western Heaven Continent. She would even meet his first girlfriend there. And then, well, she'd be done for.
After learning Xiao Xiao's identity from Mu Chen, Mandala was stunned.
But the clever Daluo Territory Lord quickly figured things out.
She concealed Xiao Xiao's departure, creating the illusion that Xiao Xiao and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python were still guests in Daluo Heaven, then immediately dispatched troops to launch a surprise attack on the Snake God Palace.
With the fall of the Snake God Palace Master, Ten Thousand Poison Snake Sovereign—the palace's only Earth Sovereign—the palace had no powerhouse of the highest tier to hold it together. Naturally, it scattered like monkeys when the tree fell.
Vast territories and resources were swallowed up by the Daluo Territory and completely absorbed.
When the skeptical God Pavilion Master finally decided that Xiao Xiao had long since left and sent another spiritual avatar into Daluo Heaven to investigate, Mandala struck him down.
The Daluo Territory Lord was also a Half-Step Upper Earth Sovereign.
Having successively swallowed up Xuantian Hall, the Hundred Battles Territory, and the Snake God Palace, Daluo Heaven's strength had surged. It soon became a power on equal footing with the old-established God Pavilion of the Northern Realm.
As a result, of the Northern