The First Commander of Youyu Realm: "..."
Searching for the Nine Nether Empress is indeed quite important, but as the lord of a realm, to personally go to another realm, isn’t that a bit too risky?
After all, although the inter-realm teleportation array has already been constructed, and people were sent to test it in advance...
Arrays like this, especially those involving cross-realm travel... are not necessarily guaranteed to be absolutely error-free.
But the Youyu Domain Master had clearly made up her mind. She waved her hand and said,
"Enough. Since this matter was decided long ago, there’s no need to say more."
"You only need to focus on guarding Youyu Realm. If something truly urgent happens, use what I left you to summon me."
In both Youyu City and the Underground Palace, there were top-tier grand arrays, and all the most precious items, Ye Youyu had already taken on her person.
As for Youyu Realm, she was still relatively at ease.
Moreover... Ye Youyu believed that once she set out for Xuanzhou, the other domain lords might not be able to sit still either.
After all, the ones they had sent out earlier were all just Mortal Realm cultivators, completely not worth mentioning.
The next second, Ye Youyu looked at the teleportation array that had already been activated with energy, pondered slightly, then stepped onto it...
Inside the teleportation array, radiance immediately began to circulate; many of the energy Crystal Stones that had been set down were drained of power in that instant, turning into piles of powder.
Cross-realm teleportation required a truly astonishing amount of energy.
By the time the light faded, Ye Youyu’s figure had already vanished from the Nine Nether Realm.
"Sigh, I don’t know whether the Domain Master will actually be able to find that legendary Empress this time..."
At the same time, the news that the Youyu Domain Master had left the Nine Nether Realm and gone to the outside world to search for the Nine Nether Empress quickly spread to the other realms via those with ulterior motives.
Ye Youyu had never intended to conceal this matter, so she hadn’t sealed the information. It was soon discovered by the spies planted by the other realms.
Her intention was precisely to lure the other domain lords into Xuanzhou as well.
When that happened, nothing unexpected would instead happen within the Nine Nether Realm.
Sure enough, not long after, when this urgent news was placed before each domain lord, their expressions immediately changed.
"How could Ye Youyu possibly go to Xuanzhou?! What does she know? Otherwise, why would she take such a risk?"
"No, if she goes to where the Nine Nether Empress currently is, and really manages to find her... what are we supposed to do?"
"Given the current situation, we have no choice but to follow her there. We must not let her beat us to it! Otherwise, once the Empress returns to power and restores everything, neither you nor I will meet a good end!"
In an instant, the actions of Ye Youyu truly made the other domain lords jittery and full of suspicion.
Back then, when the Nine Nether Empress was severely injured, aside from Youyu Realm remaining neutral, the other realms had all contributed to the effort...
Ye Youyu could help the Empress; they, however, absolutely could not. For them, the only path left was to thoroughly kill the Empress!
And once the Nine Nether Empress recovered, even if they took advantage of Ye Youyu’s absence and seized the Youyu Realm’s territory while it lacked powerful defenses, it wouldn’t bring them much benefit.
By then... everything would be over.
However, they’d originally never considered personally going to Xuanzhou, so the inter-realm teleportation arrays they had repaired currently could at most send people of the Earth Realm across.
They would still need to spend some time and pay a hefty price to upgrade them.
...
Meanwhile.
In the Northern Territory, Lu Ye, who was there at the moment, suddenly felt that the heavens were vaguely a bit off.
It was as if dark clouds were pressing down all at once, and something terrifying had suddenly descended upon this place...
Only, Lu Ye couldn’t think of what could still be called "terrifying" in the Northern Territory as it was now.
Could it be that one of those ultimate Beast Kings or perhaps the King of Evil from one of the Forbidden Lands had emerged??
"No... even if those Beast Kings who’ve been hiding themselves did come out, with the current level of the Northern Territory, it shouldn’t be enough to give me this faint sense of threat."
It wasn’t that Lu Ye was being arrogant, but the Beast Kings of the Northern Territory truly weren’t that monstrous in level.
Lu Ye shook his head. "It shouldn’t be something like that."
He didn’t dwell on it. In any case, if a peak Beast King really had appeared, rumors would start circulating before long.
But a moment later, a message from a Communication Jade Token from the Jiang Family made Lu Ye furrow his brows.
A rare sense of crisis stirred in his heart.
This message wasn’t sent by a member of the Jiang Family, but it did come from within the Jiang Family.
It came from those two Mortal Realm Grandmasters from the Nine Nether Realm stationed at the Jiang Family.
The message carried a faint, unconcealed panic.
[My lord, this is bad. I have a premonition that a powerful figure from the Nine Nether Realm seems to have descended here!]
A big shot from the Nine Nether Realm... has come here?
Who?
Yet when questioned, the two Mortal Realm cultivators stationed at the Jiang Family only said they seemed to have sensed something, but as for who it was, they naturally had no idea.
For someone to make them feel fear, even terror, an Earth Realm cultivator clearly wouldn’t count as that great a figure.
Then, was it a Celestial Realm... or someone above the Celestial Realm?
Lu Ye hadn’t expected such a thing to happen at this moment.
"Forget it, instead of guessing... they’re already here anyway. If it really is her..."
Lu Ye’s eyes narrowed slightly. In that case... he could only do his best to make sure she didn’t make a move against him.
Besides, there were plenty of people from the Nine Nether Realm. It wasn’t necessarily that woman Ye Youyu.
"She shouldn’t be that bored. Why would she leave her comfortable Youyu Realm to come all the way to Northern Xuanzhou?"
"My lord husband, what are you thinking about?"
Seeing that after taking out the Communication Jade, Lu Ye had gone quiet as if something was on his mind, Youluo asked curiously.
"Nothing, just a small matter." Lu Ye came back to himself and replied with a smile.
Right now it was all just speculation, and Lu Ye didn’t want this little Youluo to worry.
"I know, my lord husband, you definitely have something on your mind. But if you won’t say, I’ll just pretend I don’t know." Youluo clearly understood and said, "You must be afraid that I’ll be as impulsive as before, right? During this seclusion, I’ve thought through a lot of things. I won’t be as rash as I used to be."
Looking at Youluo’s serious, proper expression, Lu Ye was honestly a bit surprised.
This time in seclusion... she actually gained something like this?
"Oh, right, I have a premonition that your third Origin might also appear soon. I don’t know why I have that feeling, but my intuition tells me it’s very likely true."
Pausing, Youluo continued, "After you absorb the third Origin, I reckon your memories should gradually awaken as well... My lord husband, are you afraid that once your memories awaken, you won’t be able to accept that you’re already married?"
Hearing this question, Lu Ye pondered for a while, then said,
"No matter what happens, my conscience will be clear."