Sima Ji continued, "Margaret, you must have brought a way to cross the Boundary Domain today. Tell us what you plan to do."
When Margaret heard that Sima Ji was no longer intent on killing her and had instead shifted the subject to entering the Eighth Domain, she finally felt her anxiety ease.
Not only she, but Granny Hua and Alan beside her also breathed sighs of relief.
They really did not want Sima Ji's sudden outburst to force them into opposing the First Domain.
His sudden attack today, in particular, had caught both of them off guard.
In their private discussions, they had all agreed that now was not the time to fall out with the First Domain.
They did not believe Sima Ji was foolish enough to ruin the bigger picture over a moment's anger.
Yet the threat he had just made did not seem empty, either.
The two kept glancing at Sima Ji, trying to gauge his attitude and determine whether he had merely been trying to scare Margaret.
But Sima Ji's face had already returned to its usual cold, expressionless state, leaving them unable to read anything from it.
Granny Hua and Alan could only grumble inwardly, cursing this unpredictable man from Huaguo a thousand times over. Since Sima Ji always styled himself as the leader of the people of Huaguo, their silent curses extended to his countrymen as well.
Margaret buried her resentment deep in her heart. She would have to find another opportunity for revenge.
Margaret knew that once the Eighth Domain's Domain Master was killed, all the evolutionary sequence domains would fall under the First Domain's control. The three Domain Masters would no longer have any value as the First Domain's advance guard, nor would they be able to order people around as