While Li Su was being dragged off by the Mystic Yellow Tower to recharge, elsewhere...
In a certain space tens of thousands of miles from the Mortal Realm.
Zhu Zhong and the others who had stayed behind rather than joining the Fireseed Plan wore incomparably grim expressions.
There were not many of them—only around a thousand in total.
The largest group was undoubtedly the scientists. Moving through deep space and evading pursuit would be impossible without them; the rest were all cultivators.
There were roughly three hundred of them.
Five were in the Divine Power Realm, while all the rest were in the Mana Realm.
Though there was not even a single Immortal Realm cultivator among them, they were undoubtedly Xia Kingdom's strongest force at present.
"Are we really just going to stand by and watch?"
"The signal has already been received. The Marshal and Minister's auras have indeed appeared. If this continues, the demon race of the Earth Immortal Realm will inevitably notice them. Before they have fully recovered, once they are exposed, the two of them will surely die."
Someone spoke, his expression incomparably grave.
As his words fell, the atmosphere in the room immediately grew even heavier.
"Zhu Zhong, we must act."
"You heard the news brought back by those who returned from the Mythical Realm. A tremendous upheaval has occurred there. Brigadier General Yi Ren and the others are trapped within it, and whether they live or die is unknown."
"And His Highness Tyrant—there has not been a single scrap of news about him even now."
"The two of them can already be called our last hope."
Faced with those words, Zhu Zhong, the highest-ranking leader among those who had remained behind, could not help but let his expression change again and again. His eyes brimmed