Old Yu stood still, his face grim. How had he been exposed? How had the Third Boss learned that the Phantom Reach had hired Emperor Slayer?
It was also true that the Phantom Reach’s push to have their ruler become a Seraph was related to the Wisdom Domain.
While no one from the Wisdom Domain itself could become a Seraph, they could control who did. Both the former Seraph Yi Shang and his replacement, the ruler of the Phantom Reach, had risen to power because of this.
Seraph Yi had not even truly lost to the ruler of the Phantom Reach. Rather, he had abdicated at Old Yu’s instructions.
The old man had been caught off guard by Lu Yin’s success in fighting for the title of Seraph at the Umbral Deep. Old Yu had thought that Lu Yin would definitely be eliminated at the Umbral Deep without question. However, one expert after another had been defeated, and even Emperor Slayer had lost. Lu Yin’s limits were still unprobed, and that had forced Old Yu to change his plans.
He also had not expected Lu Yin to see through all his plans.
Did he truly not care about the lives and deaths of those aboard Boundless? How had he determined that there was a connection between Emperor Slayer and the Phantom Reach?
For the time being, Old Yu pushed his confusion aside and focused on the issues at hand. He assumed that Lu Yin was someone with both peerless cultivation talent and an ability to scheme. He should be someone who understood how to pursue the benefits while avoiding risks. Given the situation, Lu Yin should have agreed to cooperate with the Wisdom Domain in order to protect Boundless, but unexpectedly, he was taking the reckless route and completely ignoring the danger.
The Third Boss actually wanted to attack the ruler of the Phantom Reach, which would ruin many years of Old Yu’s plans.
The old man had fundamentally misunderstood Lu Yin.
Over the many years that Lu Yin had cultivated, there were times when he had forced himself to be patient, and at other times, he had taken explosive action. However, all of it had been made for the same purpose: to clearly see the road ahead of him.
He had endured the Daynight clan’s bullying and used the strength of another against the strength of his enemy. He had even joined the Lockbreaker Society in order to gain sufficient backing, which had allowed him to push forward. When infiltrating both the Perennial World and the Sixverse Association, he had shown patience. In contrast, in the Spirit Nidus, such patience was not an option.
The moment that Boundless entered the Spirit Nidus, people had started scheming against the people of the Tianyuan Megaverse. Acting patiently would only cause them to suffer from even worse schemes.
In this situation, their only option was to fight, fight until the Spirit Nidus was forced into silence and until no one dared to exploit Boundless, aside from the High Seraph himself.
Lu Yin would put up with the High Seraph’s schemes because he was not the High Seraph’s match. Still, Lu Yin would never allow himself to be exploited by anyone else in the Spirit Nidus, and that included the Wisdom Domain.
There had been one scheme after another. Lu Yin was not confident that he could always see the future so clearly, so it was best to simply wash all plots away while he could.
...
A spirit cloudstone trembled, and Old Tao’s voice was soon heard. “Third Boss, the ruler of the Phantom Reach is no longer in the Daquan Domain. He’s moved to the Roaming South Realm.”
“The Roaming South Realm?” Lu Yin had never heard of this place before. It was not one of the thirty-six domains.
“The Roaming South Realm is rather remote, and it’s not a part of the thirty-six domains. However, it’s the base for the Phantom Reach’s ruler. Outsiders don’t know this, but the Phantom Reach’s people are scattered throughout all thirty-six domains, and they don’t have a fixed headquarters. But in reality, the Roaming South Realm is where the Phantom Reach started.”
“How do you know that?” Lu Yin’s eyes glinted. While Old Tao was the Phantom Reach’s number four, Lu Yin had asked him such questions before, and Old Tao had claimed not to know about any sort of relationship like the one between the Roaming South Realm and the Phantom Reach.
Old Tao solemnly replied, “The Phantom Reach just took the initiative to tell me.”
Lu Yin lowered his spirit cloudstone and started moving towards the Roaming South Realm, following Old Tao’s directions.
Old Yu had contacted the ruler of the Phantom Reach, who was not confident enough to fight Lu Yin in the Daquan Domain. For that reason, he had returned to the Roaming South Realm. Clearly, he wanted to fight Lu Yin with the full strength of the Phantom Reach.
Elsewhere, just outside the Wisdom Domain, Old Tao lowered his own spirit cloudstone and released a breath.
Another battle was about to break out. Can’t the Third Boss just take a break? Does he really have to attack the Phantom Reach right here, right now?
Aside from trying to use Su Shidao to eliminate Lu Yin, the Phantom Reach did not seem to have done anything that would incite Lu Yin into destroying them. Why was he suddenly in such a rush?
“The Roaming South Realm? Why’s he going there?” Qing Yun asked.
Old Tao explained, “He’s going after the Phantom Reach.”
“I was assuming that Jiu Xian had returned and that he was going after her,” Qing Yun muttered.
Her comment startled Old Tao, Palace Master Yao, and several others who heard it.
“Jiu Xian stays in the Roaming South Realm?” Palace Master Yao asked.
Qing Yun nodded, concealing nothing.
No one knew the locations of most of the Seven Seraphs. Just earlier, no one in the Spirit Nidus had known that Bao Qi was in the Umbral Deep.
Jiu Xian, Seraph Meng Sang, and the other Seraphs who were not part of the seven major powers all stayed in unknown locations.
Even Palace Master Yao, someone who had enjoyed a close connection to the High Seraph, had known nothing about their locations, let alone Old Tao and the others.
They all felt like they had just learned an earth-shattering secret.
Bao Qi had been in the Umbral Deep, which was close to the Wisdom Domain, while Jiu Xian was based in the Roaming South Realm, which put her next to the Phantom Reach. Neither of these matters seemed coincidental.
“By the way, if he’s going after the Phantom Reach, send him this.” Qing Yun pulled out a jade slip. “These are the locations of some of the Phantom Reach’s people throughout the thirty-six domains.”
Old Tao took the jade while staring at Qing Yun in confusion.
She felt obligated to explain. “Jiu Xian absolutely despises the Phantom Reach, especially Yi Nan. She spends much of time investigating them, and this is what she’s managed to find. If the Third Boss can eliminate Yi Nan, then the Phantom Reach should disappear entirely.”
Old Tao skimmed the contents of the jade slip before calling Lu Yin again.
Shortly after that, at Lu Yin’s instructions, the old man reached out to the Grandverse Manor.
They were overdue for some more action.
...
Lu Yin shot through outer space, moving closer and closer to the Roaming South Realm. Suddenly, a voice called out to him. “Qianmen Feidu greets the Grandverse Manor’s Third Boss.”
Lu Yin glanced around his surroundings. A mouth had appeared nearby, much to his surprise. Just a mouth?
“A Spirit Transformation innate gift?”
“That’s exactly right. I hope you don’t mind, Third Boss.”
Lu Yin let out a genuine laugh. “You don’t dare to show yourself to me?”