Outside the Eighth Domain, on the banks of the surging River.
Margaret and her party stepped off the Wooden Boat, their expressions grim.
The followers behind them were all panting. Unable even to remain standing, they collapsed to the ground.
Alan waved the Teddy Bear in his hand and complained at the top of his lungs, "This damned domain! Those damned Gods! They killed two of my Captain-level fighters on the way in, then another two Captains and a director-level fighter on the way out! All I did was visit the Eighth Domain. I gained nothing and lost five powerful subordinates!"
"Stop complaining," Sima Ji said. "You're not the only one. Our Seventh Domain was attacked by Gods on the way back too. We lost two Captains."
Margaret added, "The trip in was fine. But when we withdrew, perhaps we'd been under domain suppression for too long and our strength had declined, allowing the Gods to detect us. Everyone lost some subordinates."
"It's all that damned Domain Master of the Eighth Domain's fault!" Granny Hua said. "Who would have thought their Domain Master would slip out of the Safe Zone when we arrived and pass some Large God's trial, causing us so much trouble!"
"He's only an Origin Sequence user. He knows very little about the [Evolutionary Origin Domain], and there's no way he could have predicted we'd come here to cause trouble for him. Don't give our enemy that much credit," Sima Ji said. "His participation in the Large God's trial had nothing to do with our entry into the Eighth Domain. It was simply a coincidence."
Margaret nodded. "I agree with Domain Master Sima. It must have been a coincidence. He couldn't have known when we would attack, nor could he have known in advance what rewards the