"This... I do remember that. Four years ago, I dispatched a troop of Abyss Ants to the Abyssal Passage as usual. But halfway there, the troop happened upon a spatial rift, and then it vanished without a trace."
The Ant Emperor's brows knitted tightly. After thinking for a moment, she began to explain.
"Later, all the Abyss Ants in that troop turned into Abyss Source, carrying the life force they had plundered back to the Abyss Plane."
"Is space in the Abyss Plane unstable? Or do spatial rifts of that level appear often?"
A glint flashed in Jiang Xiu's eyes as he pressed for more details.
Over the past four years, he had extracted what little remained of the Abyss Ants' fragmented memories and learned a great deal about the disaster he had suffered. He had also guessed who the mastermind behind it was, but there were still a few things he needed to confirm.
"I won't hide it from you, Master. Although our Abyss Plane is constantly moving through the universe, the space within it is extremely stable. We've never seen a spatial rift of that level before.
The Spirit Monarch sent people to investigate at the time, but in the end they found nothing unusual. We simply assumed that the defenses of Douluo Continent had weakened further, and that the Abyss Plane's assault had pushed it another step toward breaking through. After all, whatever the reason, we had obtained the life force."
The Ant Emperor shook her head, denying it, and told him everything about the Spirit Monarch as well.
Then, as if she had thought of something, the Ant Emperor added,
"Oh, right, Master. After one of my personal guards was revived, it told me that the spatial rift its troop had encountered was perfectly stable inside,