Chapter 1011: Rule of Blood

Chapter 1011: Chapter 443: Rule of Blood

A master of civilization finds it very easy to conceal their presence within their own civilization.

Even a warrior profession, completely unfamiliar with the concealing ability, can use the civilization domain to fully obscure their own presence.

Every conqueror of plundering civilizations knows that unless the strength difference is too vast, directly entering the civilization domain is courting death, because the master of civilization can attack from extremely close range under the cover of the domain, something even top assassins find challenging.

So either compress and weaken the civilization domain with the military, or send subordinates to force the master of civilization to act, and after they reveal themselves, use reconnaissance skills to lock on before entering.

Chu Xiu once did just this; before he chose to show himself, both Lilith and Wu dared not easily enter his domain.

This was precisely why they ultimately decided to give him the agreed treasure, after all, showing himself voluntarily was somewhat of a sign of sincerity.

Actually, if monitored in high-dimensional space, Chu Xiu could still be detected, but they never imagined that he could ignore the rules of the cooldown period, coming and going…

Thus, Chu Xiu returned to his civilization quite easily without attracting anyone’s attention.

“After I leave, unless they’re out of their minds, everyone else should immediately evacuate.”

“As a result, it would leave only those who can’t escape my civilization alone to face Lilith’s wrath.”

“But I don’t know to what extent the slaughter has progressed.”

Chu Xiu was gone for only a few seconds, but for a strong figure of Lilith’s level, it was enough time to cause significant damage.

However, when he arrived at the Titan Giant Mechanism, he was surprised to find that the situation seemed somewhat different from what he had expected.

Chu Xiu looked at the blood-red barrier covering the entire sky above, a bit dazed.

“Is this… the Blood Sea Prison?”

…

A few seconds ago, shortly after Chu Xiu left.

Contrary to his expectations, Lilith, who had been tricked by him, did not fall into an enraged state and begin a widespread slaughter; instead, she quickly calmed down.

“Has the side effect of the Five-Person Mud Jar dissipated?” Wu scanned Lilith from top to bottom.

Lilith snorted coldly and didn’t answer; she had been using the Ancient God Relic repeatedly, so how could she quickly dissipate the effect? She was only mentally barely able to shake off the jar’s interference, but her body had experienced “incompleteness” in places unseen by others.

Ignoring Wu, Lilith made the most critical decision first after calming down—contacting Ashtar.

“Did he escape?”

Upon hearing this news, Ashtar frowned, seeming a bit puzzled; he couldn’t imagine how Chu Xiu managed to escape from those two.

That set-up should have been more than sufficient to deal with an ordinary peak demigod, right?

“Hmm, perhaps that old Daoist prepared some defenses in his spirit beforehand, causing discrepancies from plan inception.”

“It could also be those two competing for credit, giving him a chance to escape…”

With this thought, a vicious light flashed in Ashtar’s eyes; if the latter was true, he wouldn’t easily spare those two, even if one were the Divine Envoy of the King of Bronze, connected to many crucial plans.

But he didn’t dwell much on the matter; the long years had made him easily discard unsettling emotions, and he began considering the current action.

“Proceed according to the prepared plan,” Ashtar said faintly, then lifted his gaze to look into the distance.

The Vengeance, originally monitoring him from forty thousand kilometers away, was now gone, presumably having received the news at the same time and decisively fled.

“Ran quite quickly.”

Ashtar withdrew his gaze, then rotated his left hand, forming a space gate behind him, instantly devouring him, bringing his body into high-dimensional space.

Not far from him, a light rose from the manifest realm and pierced into high-dimensional space.

This was Wu’s signal sent to him.

High-dimensional space is not just an expansion of the manifest realm, but each point corresponds one-to-one with it; it is simply a highly folded space.

Therefore, crossing intergalactic distances requires anchor points, even those spanning only tens of thousands of kilometers!

This is why, even knowing the other party possesses space travel abilities, Vengeance still brought Ashtar into space.

However, with an anchor point, things become easier.

Ashtar stepped out, instantly traversing two hundred million kilometers, arriving in the manifest realm!

…

“So, did that guy just run off like that?”

Meanwhile, those within the Titan Giant Mechanism were all discussing Chu Xiu’s sudden departure.

“While facing two strong opponents, timely damage control is understandable, but doesn’t this seem… overly cowardly?”

“Yeah, what is he afraid of? This place has the Zhang Family’s patriarch personally presiding! Plus, three of the Zhang Family’s secret array maps! Although one person can’t fully utilize the array maps’ power, the family head reached the perfection of demigod status many years ago; with Zhang Family’s resources assisting over the years, who knows to what extent his strength has reached, paired with the array maps, even peak demigods might not be feared!”

“Not to mention the two well-known demigods present, with these three protecting him, who could harm him? Is he so scared after being tricked out once?” A crowd of Heroic Spirits discussed.

Everyone now had only one thought in their minds: We were prepared to fight to the death, why did His Highness choose to surrender first?