Watching Immortal Emperor Luotian and the others leave, Chu Kuangren did not stop them. He was now essentially certain that Luotian was the traitor lurking within the Pangu Universe, but he did not want to kill him yet.
He still had his uses.
Then he looked at the soldiers on the continent and said calmly, "The enemy has retreated. The crisis is over."
At his words, everyone was utterly elated.
"Heavenly Sword!"
Someone took the lead and shouted.
"Heavenly Sword!"
"Heavenly Sword!"
The others joined in, brimming with excitement.
Chu Kuangren nodded slightly, inwardly satisfied.
He had gained another wave of prestige.
Not a bad deal.
Meanwhile, Emperor Heavenly Sovereign watched Chu Kuangren bask in everyone's attention, like the moon surrounded by a host of stars. He gritted his teeth, a bitter taste in his heart.
It was not as though he could not defeat Immortal Emperor Luotian.
But in everyone's eyes,
he could not defeat Luotian, while the Heavenly Sword could!
Imperceptibly, the Heavenly Sword's prestige would rise above his.
What people feared most was being compared.
"Heavenly Sword... what a troublesome fellow."
Inside the Tianyuan Divine Hall.
God King Sikong could not make sense of it, no matter how he thought it over. There had been no problems with their plan. To ensure that Immortal Emperor Luotian could successfully capture the Eleventh Continent, he had even secretly cut off its distress signals.
The other continents had also happened to be rotating their defenses.
But...
Why had the Heavenly Sword appeared there, of all places?
Had he not always stayed on the Ninth Continent?
God King Sikong felt a headache coming on.
He decided to get to the bottom of it at their next meeting.
Meanwhile, news that the Heavenly Sword had reinforced the Eleventh Continent and defeated