The cultivator looked this way and that, searching for something unknown.
Hidden in a crack between space and time, Chen Yao watched him quietly while also observing this peculiar space.
If he remembered correctly, a dragon head breathing blood-colored light had swallowed him. But just as he lifted the coffin lid to check the situation, he had been teleported away on the spot.
Fortunately, the Great Luo Sword Embryo had come through for him. It had not been left behind, but had gone with him.
"Ugh, why is it one damned thing after another? I only wanted to look around the Pan King Universe for undercover Dark Creatures. How did I get dragged into this Nine Nether Mastiff business?" Chen Yao muttered.
He had long intended to search Pan King's universe for relevant clues, because in the original story, Qin Hao's disappearance had clearly resulted from the Dark Creatures' subordinates kidnapping him and taking him to the Nine-Headed Monster.
After Ao Sheng joined forces with Tai Shi Immortal King and Yuan Chu Immortal King to cross worlds and strike underhandedly while Shi Hao was weakened during his Immortal King Tribulation, everyone closely connected to Shi Hao would face a corresponding reckoning. Staying in other universes was dangerous.
Zhu Lin had died because she went out to gain experience. Logically speaking, she would certainly have avoided those three Immortal Kings' universes, yet she had still been killed in an ambush. That alone showed the danger involved. Qin Hao would inevitably be among the first to bear the brunt.
In the original story, everyone knew that Qin Hao's relationship with Shi Hao had improved. Especially after the Divine Academy storyline began, Qin Hao had become one of Shi Hao's admirers, routinely arguing with those fellows with three immortal qi to defend his