Saber in hand, Qin Shujian pursued them for thirty thousand li.
Only when he saw reinforcements from the Demon Race arriving
did he have to stop.
He left with regret, carrying the two ninth-level Heavenly Being corpses stored in the Heavenly Rankings.
Inside the Demon Race Secret Realm.
Heavenly Sage and Thunder Sage looked deathly pale.
Neither had expected
Qin Shujian to be this powerful.
Despite having two Great Powers, three top-tier Demon Sages, and an Ancestral Weapon, they had been driven into a desperate retreat.
And that was not all.
If two Demon Sages had not sacrificed their lives at the end to hold Qin Shujian back,
perhaps
they would have died at his hands before the Demon Race reinforcements could reach them.
However,
what truly pained Heavenly Sage was that
another corner of the Heavenly Demon Palace had been shattered by the Godslayer Saber.
This Ancestral Weapon had suffered one misfortune after another since leaving the Eastern Continent.
It had been damaged twice now.
Although the damage was not enough to undermine its foundation, it was still severe.
Inside the great hall.
The Demon Emperor briefly emerged from seclusion.
This incident had alarmed him as well.
"Tell me what happened." Having assumed the form of a middle-aged man, the Demon Emperor looked down at the bedraggled Heavenly Sage and Thunder Sage and spoke indifferently.
At his words,
Heavenly Sage and Thunder Sage dared not conceal anything and gave an honest account.
Once they had explained everything,
the Demon Emperor's expression gradually grew grave.
"He was strong enough to destroy the Earth Spirit Race single-handedly, but with all of you joining forces and wielding the Heavenly Demon Palace, even I would have found you difficult to handle.
"For him to drive you into a desperate retreat and kill two