"Is there a problem, guest?" the masked man asked, looking at Ye Ling and narrowing his eyes.
Ye Ling quickly regained his composure and asked the masked man, "It's just some clothes, isn't it? Why hide them so deeply?"
Although the elders of the Demonic Palace held a noble status on the East Xuan Continent, that was only within the East Xuan Continent. Once they reached other world civilizations, few people cared, let alone extraterrestrial civilizations!
It was likely that even a third-rate force from beyond the domain would be stronger than the East Xuan Demonic Palace!
Yet, this small Tianyi Pavilion, to store the clothes of the Demonic Palace elders, had specially constructed a spatial link to the extraterrestrial. This was truly too exaggerated!
The masked man, unaware of Ye Ling's thoughts, smiled and said, "It's more than just some clothes."
With that, he channeled his spiritual energy to open a spatial gate and made a "please" gesture to Ye Ling. "Please, guest. You'll surely be amazed inside."
Ye Ling gave the masked man a deep look, then, with lightning speed, grabbed the masked man's head. A vast soul force surged into the masked man's mind, searching his soul.
Previously, Ye Ling had considered Qing Shi City to be a small city and hadn't paid much attention to Tianyi Pavilion, thinking he wouldn't find any significant information there.
But now, he was surprised that Tianyi Pavilion in this small Qing Shi City had a connection to the extraterrestrial!
No matter what the matter, once it involved the extraterrestrial, the situation changed completely, and Ye Ling had to take it seriously!
However, the masked man seemed to merely regard the warehouse as a special small world and was unaware of the distinction between the inner and outer domains.
Ye Ling's soul search yielded nothing.
The World Annihilation Spiritual Fire said, "Kid, don't you feel something is off?"
Ye Ling released the masked man and asked the World Annihilation Spiritual Fire, "What are your thoughts?"
The World Annihilation Spiritual Fire replied, "Since we arrived on the East Xuan Continent, the traces of the script have been too strong, as if someone is deliberately guiding us. Everything seems to have been arranged by someone."
"Whether it was encountering the reincarnation of the East Xuan Heavenly Dao, capturing the robbers disguised as Demonic Palace disciples, or this Tianyi Pavilion connected to the extraterrestrial... it's all a chain of events, with a hidden hand pushing us forward."
Ye Ling nodded slightly. "Indeed, the reason we came here was entirely because someone intercepted the Earth Heavenly Dao's transmission midway, giving us the coordinates of the East Xuan Heavenly Dao's reincarnation."
"That hidden fellow's methods are truly terrifying!"
The World Annihilation Spiritual Fire continued, "We don't know if the other party is friend or foe currently, and this warehouse in the extraterrestrial space is too bizarre. Ye Ling, it's best you don't go in."
"Mmm..."
Ye Ling nodded again, agreeing with the World Annihilation Spiritual Fire's assessment.
After all, he had just escaped from the clutches of the Creation God, the Lord of Remnants. To return to the extraterrestrial space at this juncture would be akin to walking into a trap, the height of foolishness.
"However, from the memories of this masked man, I learned that the warehouse contains not only clothes but also the bodies of my Demonic Palace elders and disciples. I want to rescue them."
The World Annihilation Spiritual Fire exclaimed, "Don't tell me you're going to risk your life for the bodies of a few low-level cultivators!"
"Kid, the extraterrestrial is not what it used to be. If the Lord of Remnants senses you, Zhang Xiao Ling can't always rush to save you in time!"
Ye Ling smiled. "Don't worry, I won't personally venture in."
With that, Ye Ling destroyed the masked man's soul and split off a wisp of his divine sense to possess the masked man's body.
"If I send my divine sense, I won't suffer any loss even if danger arises."
Seeing Ye Ling possess the masked man, the World Annihilation Spiritual Fire breathed a sigh of relief and sighed, "That's good. As long as you don't use your main body to do foolish things, we are brothers who share life and death."
Ye Ling asked with a smile, "What if I go with my main body?"
The World Annihilation Spiritual Fire replied without hesitation, "When disaster strikes, everyone flees for themselves."
"I understand."
Hearing the World Annihilation Spiritual Fire's words, Ye Ling shook his head and smiled, not surprised by the answer at all.
After exchanging a couple of jokes with the World Annihilation Spiritual Fire, Ye Ling, controlling the masked man's body, entered the warehouse in the extraterrestrial space.
Just then, Ye Ling's communication jade suddenly lit up, and a tearful voice entered his ears: "Young Master! My grandfather was killed!"
"What?"
Ye Ling, who was about to collect the bodies of the Demonic Palace disciples, suddenly had his pupils contract upon hearing Lian Yin's words, and he quickly asked, "What happened?"
"My grandfather... Ahhhhhh!"
Lian Yin's words were cut short by a piercing scream from the communication jade, and then Ye Ling lost contact with Lian Yin!
"Lian Yin? Lian Yin? Damn it!"
Ye Ling's expression turned grim. In the brief moment he was stunned, the Lord of Remnants, sensing Ye Ling's aura in the extraterrestrial, instantly tore apart the Tianyi Pavilion's warehouse!
The masked man's body and Ye Ling's divine sense turned to dust in an instant!
Ye Ling's divine sense perished, and his face turned extremely pale.
The World Annihilation Spiritual Fire said, "See! I knew the Lord of Remnants was watching you! If you had gone out with your main body just now, you would have been dead for sure!"
"We can't bother with this place now, let's go to the other side first!"
Ye Ling, no longer concerned about the warehouse destroyed by the Lord of Remnants, quickly wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and fled in Lian Yin's direction!
On the other side of Qing Shi City, along the great road, bodies lay scattered.
A man in black had his hand piercing Lian Yin's heart, his expression extremely indifferent.
"You, you..."
Lian Yin looked at the man in black with terror, the intense pain causing her consciousness to blur.
She didn't understand. She had merely gone out of the city to find her grandfather, only to witness her grandfather's demon-hunting mercenary group being annihilated by a man in black. She had also become the target of the man in black!
The man in black ruthlessly threw Lian Yin to the ground, pressed two fingers to his ear, and reported through the spatial communication jade inserted in his ear, "Target eliminated, reincarnation information erased."
"Well done, prepare for return. We don't know much about the information of that era, so don't linger too long in that era to avoid accidents."
"Yes, preparing for return," the man in black replied. The surrounding space began to distort, and his body gradually faded.
However, just as the man in black was about to leave this temporal space, a dark chain appeared out of thin air and coiled around his body!
The man in black's fading body solidified once more!
"This is!!!"
The man in black's expression changed drastically as he saw the rune-covered chain entwined around him, and he quickly said, "Requesting headquarters support, I've been targeted by Ye Ling!"
However, before the man in black could transmit this distress signal, he lost contact with headquarters.
Not only that, but the memories in his mind were also being rapidly erased by a peculiar force.
"Is that so..."
Feeling his important memories constantly dissipating, the man in black instantly understood what had happened.
He... had been decisively abandoned by headquarters.
Boom!
Ye Ling's terrifying aura pressed down. The man in black's legs couldn't withstand Ye Ling's pressure, and he immediately knelt on the ground!
The space in front of the man in black distorted slightly, and Ye Ling, with an exceptionally grim expression, emerged from it.
Ye Ling looked at the man in black, whose face was filled with despair, and asked coldly, "Who... are you people?"