Boom!
Another tremendous blast came from the direction of the wormhole.
Sahe's thoughts were interrupted. All ten Demon Venerables looked over at once, their expressions grim.
An hour earlier, Sahe had sent several Burrowing Earth Dragons to clear the collapsed underground passages.
They had barely excavated a sufficiently spacious area when a blinding white light suddenly lit up the surrounding rock.
An explosion came from the other end of the Space Wormhole.
The Burrowing Earth Dragons, each over ten meters in diameter and a hundred meters long, were torn to pieces by the shock wave before they could even send a message. They were utterly dead.
As for the underground space they had just cleared, it naturally collapsed again, and billowing dust blocked the wormhole's exit.
This was already the third time.
After every explosion, the rock had to cool before the Burrowing Earth Dragons could resume work.
Yet the moment they dug a passage through, an attack from the other side would arrive right on time, as though a pair of eyes had been watching every inch of rock underground.
Several Demon Venerables' expressions turned grim.
"My lord, why don't we open a few more wormholes?" one Demon Venerable could not help suggesting.
"These have all been blocked off. If we open a few deeper exits, the other side can't possibly discover them in time."
"Once we've spread out deeper underground, we can break through from different directions simultaneously."
"No." Already angered by the repeated failures, Sahe rejected the suggestion outright.
To find an intelligent civilization, it had made Space-Jumping Beasts continually sacrifice themselves to open wormholes in different star regions.
Later, it had handed over another ten Space-Jumping Beasts in exchange for the coordinates Cho'Gath held.
These ten wormholes had consumed another ten Space-Jumping Beasts.
Now it had