Chapter 368: The Realm of Mystic Heaven (1/2)

Chapter 368: The Realm of Mystic Heaven

Inside the dim spatial tunnel...

As endless, pure demon Qi was continuously infused into the rivers of demon Qi, they gradually extended towards the gray vortex that led to the Realm of Flame Heaven.

Zelia and Caro from the Astarte Clan were both standing behind another high-tier Demon.

That high-tier Demon had a slender physique and an unearthly, elegant appearance. He wearing tasteful, well-designed dark-purple garments with beautiful golden patterns embroidered on the cuffs and collar.

Upon a closer look, those high-tier Demons were all standing on the back of an enormous low-tier Demon, which looked like a huge lizard.

The low-tier Demon flew along the torrential rivers of demon Qi.

“Uncle Nolante, the most powerful human in the Realm of Flame Heaven is only at the Profound realm,” Zelia said, looking up at the tall high-tier Demon, her slender eyebrows deeply furrowed. “Considering the strength of our clan, we didn’t have to wait for demon Qi to fill the Realm of Flame Heaven for us to take it, did we? Now you see. Since we waited too long, the spell formation left by the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace has been activated again...”

Eyes deep and mysterious, the finely-dressed Nolante explained, “The Realm of Flame Heaven was only one of our rangelands. At first, we only used it to rear our pet beasts. It was actually of very little value, since we can use it for other purposes.

“Otherwise, we would have rallied our best troops and taken it back right after the human Qi warriors of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace took it from us when we were vulnerable.

“After they took it, they destroyed all the inter-spatial teleportation portals we set up there, but they left that spatial rift.

“Since they were so complacent, they only sealed it one-way, stopping us from entering the Realm of Flame Heaven.

“I bet they hoped that one day, human Qi warriors there would become powerful enough that they would daringly enter our realm through that spatial rift.

“Unfortunately, till this day, only a handful of humans throughout the entire Domain of the Falling Stars have had the audacity to enter our realm and survive.”

With these words, the Demon who seemed to be a senior leader of the Astarte Clan fell silent.

A moment later, Nolante continued, “But admittedly, after centuries of development, the strength of the human Qi warriors in the Domain of the Falling Stars has indeed improved.”

“However, their battle prowess will drop significantly when they are submerged in demon Qi, so if they ever dare to set foot in our realm, they will be digging their own graves.

“Similarly, if we march rashly into the Realm of Flame Heaven or the other realms of the Domain of the Falling Stars, where we will be surrounded with the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, we’ll put ourselves in an unfavorable position.

“In addition, we weren’t sure if the humans were trying to set us up by reopening that spatial rift.

“Part of the reason why we didn’t rush through that spatial rift the moment it reopened was that we were worried that the spatial rift would close up as soon as our army marched through it.

“If that actually happened, our forces that marched into the Realm of Flame Heaven would have become isolated.”

With a sigh, Nolante continued, “Humans are very deceitful, and we’ve been tricked quite a few times already, so we need to be extra careful.”

OWWW! ROAAAR!

At that moment, the Rotspirit Ox, which had been badly injured by Hua Mu, flew back to them.

As soon as it saw Nolante, its eyes blossomed with the light of excitement. Without any delay, it approached him and explained what had happened in the demon language, not leaving out any details.

Nolante listened attentively, his eyebrows furrowing and straightening every now and then.

After a long time, he nodded gently and said, “From the look of it, the reopening of the three spatial rifts in the Domain of the Falling Stars is not a conspiracy. It’s probably just an accident caused by the appearance of the Heaven Gates. The man with all the fragmentary star marks has already showed up and has set about sealing the spatial rift in the Realm of Flame Heaven...”

After a moment of hesitation, he ordered, “Let’s go. Abort the mission of attacking the Realm of Flame Heaven. We’ll figure out another direction.”

“Shouldn’t we at least have a try, Uncle?” Zelia said, her face filled with reluctance.

Nolante shook his head, saying, “Even though the ancient spell formation left by the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace isn’t impregnable, we’ll have to pay a huge price if we want to deactivate it. The price itself will far exceed the value of the Realm of Flame Heaven, so it won’t be a good choice. Furthermore, I’m not one of the few who are capable of breaking the restrictive spell formation left by the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.”

“... So where do we go now?” Zelia asked.

“We need to inform the other clans of the situation, and let them decide whether or not they want to launch their operations ahead of schedule and march their armies into the Realm of Mystic Heaven and the Realm of a Thousand Devastations now.” Nolante said.

Immediately afterwards, the huge Astarte army turned around and ended their invasion of the Realm of Flame Heaven prematurely.