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Heavenly Profound Star.
The ruler, Sovereign Withered Wood, had lately been gripped by a vague, gnawing unease. It was as if some unseen storm loomed on the horizon.
At his level, a sovereign among immortals, such feelings rarely came without cause. To make his intuition stir like this, the opposing force had to be one of equal level, or perhaps even greater.
He reviewed recent events, and only one individual matched that level: Luo Chuan. As for the saber-wielding man who had been fleeing pursuit, his cultivation was far from sufficient.
Luo Chuan had suffered grave injuries. It stood to reason he would not recover quickly enough to provoke such foreboding.
Could he have actually already recovered?
Sovereign Withered Wood paced back and forth, unsettled.
No, that shouldn’t be possible.
More importantly, he recalled that Luo Chuan’s injuries had not been due to his own attack alone. The blow had only become truly devastating because the saber-wielding man’s magical treasure had erupted with overwhelming force at the exact moment their strikes collided. Luo Chuan had suffered a compounded hit.
A man who had not even stepped into the Other Shore, carrying a weapon of the Other Shore caliber… Frankly, Sovereign Withered Wood was deeply tempted.
Such a magical treasure was not just a rare find, it was an era-defining artifact. With it in hand, he could rise above his rivals, break the long-standing balance of power, and perhaps even unify the segmentum.
Luo Chuan likely crossed forbidden lines to seize that treasure, hence his reckless killing spree here.
But seeing as it appeared right here in my domain, well…
Let’s just say that whoever holds the blade owns the blade.
Sovereign Withered Wood had sent his forces across the segmentum in search of the saber-wielding man for over ten days, yet his subordinates returned with nothing. Even his divinations failed, and everything seemed to be obscured in an impassable fog.
It made no sense.
And he had thus begun to feel that...
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