Yun Qing looked at him.
Yun Yuan grinned. "But I like it. Let's do just that."
At the command, the Immortal Lords stood guard and the Immortal Venerables held the line. The Yun Clan immediately rested in place and continued their preparations for battle.
Yun Qing also sat cross-legged, the Immortal Court Seal floating quietly before him and scattering motes of immortal light.
But as they waited and waited, things took a turn for the worse.
Instead of the Blood Cocoon stirring and breaking open, two groups arrived first.
Far away, on the inner side of the World Barrier, starlight suddenly blazed.
Dreamlike, magnificent star tracks unfurled through the void, as though someone had used heavenly secrets as thread to weave an ethereal road of stars across the Star Ring.
An imposing procession came charging down that star road.
Looking at their Fate Disks cradled in their arms and their distant, vacant gazes, then at their white gauze veils and thin silk blindfolds, who could they possibly be but those charlatans from the Heavenly Secrets Primordial Divination Pavilion?
Yun Qing slapped his forehead, instantly realizing he had overlooked something crucial.
After the affair in the Human World ended, Fu Sanyuan and Bing Xixi had been personally escorted away by their respective backers, the Cosmic Star Lord and the Ice Lord.
If the army of Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons had already been entrenched near the passage between the two worlds, those two mighty figures had probably noticed something when they left the Human World.
And having tasted the benefits of that quarter of a Heavenly Demon Heart Crystal, could they possibly pass up such a "gift of fate"? How could they not hurry over to continue the hunt?
A miscalculation. Yun Qing exchanged a glance with the Second Elder and sighed inwardly.