The mastermind behind the scenes starting with the calamity of all races

Su Yu and Wan Tiansheng exchanged a glance, looking somewhat helpless. The next moment, they tacitly sealed their ears.

Between gagging Lan Tian's mouth and blocking his ears, Su Yu and his companion decisively chose the latter, as it was a convenient and quick method.

After a while, Lan Tian finally stopped, not because his lung capacity was insufficient, but because he discovered that Su Yu and Wan Tiansheng had blocked their ear canals, which made him feel bored, so he stopped.

Seeing that he had shut his mouth, Su Yu and Wan Tiansheng naturally opened their ears, their movements were very smooth. If Lan Tian hadn't discovered it in advance, they probably would still be in the dark.

Seeing this, he snorted coldly to express his dissatisfaction. He had been busy these past few days, working himself to the bone, and these two 'stinking bastards' were treating him like this. They had no conscience at all.

Oh well, what can I do? I had to be a simp.

He had already foreseen that a sycophant would end up with nothing.

But he just loves licking!

Blue Sky: I'm so happy being a simp, I'm ecstatic!

Su Yu, Wan Tiansheng: ...

"Ahem, it's about time we went back."

Unsure why Lan Tian's gaze had become strange again, Su Yu quickly spoke up.

Wan Tiansheng glanced at the seawater below and said softly, "They should all be dead. We can leave now."

The next moment, he looked up at the sky and earth, and after carefully sensing it, he said, "The pace of the world's recovery seems to have accelerated. Is it because these people have perished? Are they giving back to the world?"

"It should be," Su Yu said.

He noticed this as well.

Then, he stroked his chin and said in a serious tone, "If we were to kill a powerful being here, such as Grandpa or King Wen, this world might even advance as a result."

Wan Tiansheng and Lan Tian both looked at Su Yu, not daring to say a word.

That's a great example you used!

Noticing their gazes, Su Yu snapped out of his daze. He took a deep breath and warned, "Cough, you didn't hear anything, and I didn't say anything either. Forget it, forget it."

Wan Tiansheng and the other man nodded quickly.

Understood! Received!

Su Yu nodded, looking satisfied. As expected of his best friend, he was reliable.

"Let's go back to Tianxing City and clean up the mess. It's time to end this chaos."

Su Yu gestured to the two of them, then turned and flew towards Tianxing City.

Wan Tiansheng and Lan Tian exchanged a glance and silently followed.

In the sky, the three flew side by side, gradually moving further and further away until they disappeared.

The sea remained calm, as if no great battle had ever taken place. The deep waters swallowed everything, with only a few pieces of broken stone floating on the surface proving that someone had been here and something had happened.

There is nothing else.

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Within the same time period.

The main cities, such as Hurricane City, Star River City, and Boundless City, immediately noticed something was wrong.

The City Without Borders.

The person in charge of external communications immediately reported the situation to their immediate supervisor.

"Sir, Fan Wei and the others have gone missing..."

The man at the head of the table frowned upon hearing his subordinate's report and asked, "What happened?"

The person in charge quickly explained, "It's like this. Before Fan Wei and the others left the ruins, I told them to send me a message every half hour to an hour, but now... several hours have passed, and I haven't received a single message. All the messages I sent have disappeared without a trace, and there has been no response."

"So I guess...something has probably happened to them, otherwise they wouldn't stop contacting me."

After the person in charge finished speaking, he immediately lowered his head, not daring to look the person above him in the eye. At the same time, he felt uneasy, fearing that he would be implicated and punished.

The man above slowly emerged from the shadows, revealing his somewhat gloomy face. He was clad in golden armor, and his aura was like a vast ocean. Even without deliberately radiating his power, he still made the person in charge below tremble with fear.

This is a saint in his prime. Unlike Hongtu and Bai Changsheng, this person has been awake for 100,000 years and has been cultivating continuously. Therefore, both his physical body and spirit are at their peak.

Except for the lack of the support of the original universe, he is a saint in his prime!

At the same time, he is also the second son of the Zheng family, Zheng Gong!

Over the years, he has been mainly responsible for guarding the Boundless City, firmly holding onto this main city that originally belonged to the Zheng family, and disguising it as an energy depletion, all to prevent others from discovering the fact that the Zheng family had betrayed Xinwu.

Especially since the Zheng family was the leader.

If Xinwu returns, his entire family will die, including his elder brother who went to war with the Sword Master.

It is worth mentioning that the Zheng family patriarch has three sons. The eldest son left the Silver Moon World with the Sword Master, the second son Zheng Gong stayed in Boundless City, and the third son Zheng Yu is the most outstanding and the strongest. He is currently in Hurricane City, and he has taken over the main city that originally belonged to the Liu family.

At this time, Zheng Yu was a half-emperor, a half-emperor who could be promoted to emperor at any time, but he dared not, or rather, was unwilling.

Even if he were to advance to the Emperor level, he would still be among the weakest. His ambition would not allow him to do so. Therefore, he plots against the Silver Moon and the Great Dao Universe, all in order to push him to a level at least comparable to the Sword Venerable when he advances to the Emperor level.

He doesn't want to be the weakest emperor; he wants to become an emperor with unlimited potential!

As for Zheng Hongyuan, the head of the Zheng family, he is currently inside the ruins of Zhenxing City, using his own blood to feed the sword!

The father and his two sons lived in different places, which shows that they understood the principle of not putting all their eggs in one basket. They separated and carried out different plans.

Those who have read the original work know that they had a lot of plans, with each step linked to the next and countless backup plans. Otherwise, if Li Hao hadn't appeared out of nowhere and acted unpredictably, disrupting and destroying their plans, they might have already succeeded.

Of course, even without Li Hao, Li Daoheng would still be standing in the way of the Zheng family father and son. With him around, the Zheng family father and son would not have succeeded so easily.

However, with Li Hao's sudden emergence, Li Daoheng didn't even need to lift a finger; the Zheng family's plans were almost completely ruined by him. It can only be said that it was all a matter of timing and fate; they just happened to run into the protagonist.

On the other hand, the Zheng family father and son were in an even worse situation. If they still had a chance against Li Hao and Li Daoheng, they were now facing Yun Jie and his group, and the Zheng family father and son had no chance of winning at all.

However, the Zheng father and son are still unaware of the formidable opponent they are about to face; otherwise, they would already be ready to slit their own throats.

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In the shadows, Zheng Gong, clad in golden armor, ignored his kneeling subordinates. His brow furrowed, his eyes flickered, and he muttered, "Something happened? How could this be..."

With so many people, how could something have happened? Moreover, it seems like they were all wiped out, which makes it even more unbelievable.

Did we encounter several sages?

Okay, that's complete nonsense.

Even immortals can't get out now, so how can sages get out? It's obviously illogical.

but now……

Zheng Gong thought for a moment and said in a deep voice, "Don't rush. It's possible that they're tied up with something. Let's wait... another day."

He originally wanted to wait a few more hours, but felt it wasn't safe, so he extended the time to a day.

If Fan Wei and his group are safe and sound throughout the day, they will definitely contact the main city. If there is still no news after a day, then there is a high probability that something has happened.

Although I can't figure out why they got into trouble, sometimes the reason isn't that important; what matters is the result.

"Yes!"

The person in charge responded, and at the same time, he felt relieved, relieved that he hadn't been implicated.

As for Zheng Gong's order, he felt... the hope was extremely slim. How could anything possibly hold back hundreds of top experts, preventing them from even having time to send a message?

He thought, it's probably not that Fan Wei and the others didn't have time, but rather that they didn't have the opportunity...

This is the only reasonable explanation.

However, the clever man did not bring it up. How could Zheng Gong not have thought of what he could think of? He was just hoping for the best. Even he, didn't he hope that Fan Wei and the others would really be entangled in something?

If Fan Wei and his group are indeed eliminated by an unknown enemy, then they will inevitably have to fight against that enemy sooner or later. At that time, the variables will be too great, and their own safety will increase dramatically.

He was worried that even he, as a logistics worker, might lose his life. Of course, he hoped that he was just imagining things and scaring himself.

Finally, the person in charge left with a heavy heart. Since Zheng Gong said to wait one more day, then so be it. God help us, please don't let anything really happen.

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Inside the main hall, after the person in charge left, Zheng Gong slowly sat down. The golden armor he wore fit his body very well, and could even be described as soft, just like ordinary clothes.

dong dong dong...

The sound of fingertips tapping on the wooden board echoed in the hall. Zheng Gong fell into deep thought, his eyes constantly flashing. As mentioned before, he could naturally think of what the person in charge could think of.

In fact, he had already prepared for the worst. Even if the final result was bad news, he could handle it. Of course, being able to handle it was one thing, but getting angry was another.

If Fan Wei and his team were truly wiped out, he would definitely be angry, perhaps even furious.

This is not surprising, because he really went all in on the top experts in the Boundless City at once, leaving none behind in the ruins, sending them all out. If something really happened, the losses would be too great to describe.

You have to understand that top-tier combat power is a backbone force in any era, and it is something that is rare and precious!

Think about it, how many peerless masters has the Zheng family produced in a hundred thousand years? Only one or two hundred.

Are a couple hundred top-tier experts a lot? Not at all!

In the Silver Moon region, this might seem like a lot, but compared to the New Martial World, a hundred or two top-tier experts are nothing at all.

Thinking of this, Zheng Gong couldn't help but feel heartbroken. Who knows how much effort and energy they had put into cultivating these peerless talents? And now, on their very first appearance, they were wiped out!

Zheng Gong clutched his chest, his face contorted in pain, so much so that he could hardly breathe!

"Things haven't gotten to the worst yet, have they?"

Suddenly, a voice rang out from the darkness, accompanied by a series of thumping sounds, and a man dressed in sky-blue armor, exuding a terrifying aura, stepped out.

Zheng Gong looked up at him, his brows furrowed slightly, and said, "I can't think of anything else that could keep Fan Wei and the others from even having time to send a message."

"If they didn't even have this much time, do you think they'd still be alive now?"

The man in sky-blue armor shook his head, clearly disagreeing with Zheng Gong's words. He said, "I don't rule out the possibility you mentioned, but is there another possibility, for example, that the signal has been blocked?"

"You know, currently the ruins cannot communicate with each other. Maybe they have entered one of the ruins, which is why we haven't been able to contact them."

Zheng Gong nodded in agreement, but then he started to argue, saying, "If there really is such a ruin, do you think it's possible that something that could threaten Fan Wei and his group could exist inside, like a saint? Although Fan Wei and his group are numerous and strong, they are far inferior to a saint. They combined wouldn't be enough to defeat a saint."

The man in the sky-blue armor shook his head again. "The situation you described is based on the premise that the saint is at his peak. A saint at his peak can naturally take down Fan Wei and the others, but don't forget, only our people can remain at their peak. As for the others, they probably haven't recovered yet."

"..."

Zheng Gong looked at the man in front of him and said helplessly, "Han Jiang, I admit that what you said makes some sense. I also hope that everything is as you say. Let's wait and see. If we still can't get in touch with him by tomorrow, it means that everything is heading towards the worst possible outcome. We need to prepare as soon as possible."