Opposite Sikong Jing...
Elder Gong and the others aboard the divine cosmos ship continued forward.
Facing the battlefield Yin Spirits flowing like water, Elder Gong remained utterly calm. He said coldly, "This is the largest breach in the Vast Universe's direction at present, but it's merely a small appetizer—not worth worrying about."
If someone were inside the passage now, they would see...
Elder Gong's divine cosmos ship continuously smashed through the Yin Spirit Evil Qi surging like a torrent, its speed not slowing in the slightest.
The others also appeared relaxed for the moment...
Mu Bujun's spirit shadow, however, spoke with some displeasure...
"Inside the passage..."
"There is no Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts from the Vast Universe at all. He merely used a clone to scare us into not advancing."
"If we had gone to the Vast Universe earlier, we definitely could have broken their arrangements."
By this point, Mu Bujun could more or less determine...
The Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts of the Vast Universe, merely a One-Tribulation Emperor Venerable, could not possibly have arrived, much less set any ambush. Thus, the clone's actions earlier had all been a smokescreen.
It had surely been meant to delay them at the entrance, buying time to gather people and slaughter them there.
If they had not stubbornly insisted on returning to the Origin Universe back then, if they had not been delayed for a full seven or eight months, then by turning back and reentering the Vast Universe earlier, they certainly could have shattered all of Sikong Jing's arrangements.
"Mu Jianzi, that wasn't what you said before. Stop playing the hindsight hero."
"Back then, we had no idea where the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts of the Vast Universe was, or which direction he was in."
That Four-Tribulation Emperor Venerable