"Is that so?" Faced with the Negative-Origin Turtle Demon Venerable's confident words, Ye Jingcheng remained noncommittal.
He had deliberately chosen a Grotto-Heaven rather than a secret realm. First, the Ye Family currently had only one seventh-stage secret realm. Second, a Grotto-Heaven could be moved.
The Negative-Origin Turtle had noticed nothing because the battle had dulled its awareness, and it was still inside the Ink Spirit Ten Directions Inkstone. Little did it know that the Void-Rending Divine Earthworm had already carried the Grotto-Heaven across countless tens of thousands of miles.
They were also about to enter the Ye Family's seventh-stage secret realm.
Now, even if the remaining seventh-stage Negative-Origin Turtle mobilized the other clans to search together, they would struggle to find their current location, let alone overcome the isolation provided by the secret realm's entrance, with its spatial rifts.
Of course, sending an eighth-stage Body Integration Demon Lord to intercept them early on might have worked.
But this was merely the disappearance of a Seventh-Stage Demon Venerable, not its confirmed death. How could they possibly awaken a Demon Lord over that?
By the time they thought to awaken a Demon Lord and have it investigate, there would be no trace of them left, much less any way to find the secret realm where they were hiding. That, too, would be a futile endeavor.
This also meant that the seventh-stage Negative-Origin Turtle could only save itself.
In truth, however, even trying to save itself now would be too late.
Once Ye Jingcheng determined that it had a chance of escaping, he would detonate that Grotto-Heaven.
He could pierce the void and naturally escape through it, but the seventh-stage Negative-Origin Turtle would have a much harder time.
Not only would it have to endure the Grotto-Heaven's self-detonation and suffer grievous injuries, but