Chapter 648 — The Realm King's Mission

Of course, this was only Shi Ying's conjecture—perhaps the truth was even more absurd. For instance, the combined power of the Time Spirits and the Realm King might allow entry into the true "past," where changing the past would change the "future."

But no matter what, since the Realm King had spoken, Shi Jue could not refuse this task—and at the same time, he was himself intensely curious about this archaeological mission.

...

The outside world.

Shi Jin had appeared directly inside the Realm King Star, within the Eastern Brilliance Realm.

After being teleported back, he gazed at the starry sky and sighed softly.

"Ying..." Qi, inside Shi Ying's beast-taming space, was trembling with nerves. After the Realm King revealed her existence, Qi had gotten a fright.

And after he said that the Sixth Universe-level being "exclusively devoured" Time Spirits, she was even more frightened.

Qi the archaeologist had originally been quite interested in excavating the Sixth Universe-level being, but now... Sixth Universe-level, who was that? She, Qi, did not want to know her!

"Shi Jin, are we really going to the past?" she asked.

"I truly never imagined that the Time Spirits of the entire universe would have their power stripped by the Sixth Universe-level being, leaving only you..." Shi Li said.

"The situation now is this: if the Sixth Universe-level being discovers you, what if she means you harm?"

Qi: !!

"If this spacetime jade of the Realm King's can conceal your aura, then it would be good for us to go to the past first and lie low for a while," Shi Li said. "If we can resolve the matter of the Sixth Universe-level being and make her stop targeting the Time Spirits, then once we return, you will be safe as well."

By this time, Shi Ying's entire team had erupted into an uproar.

They had not dared to communicate earlier, but now they all found the Realm King's task inconceivable.

"According to my analysis, Master, perhaps we need not be so tense," Lin said.

"What do you mean?"

"The spacetime node we are going to—is it not possible that the Sixth Universe-level being had not yet reached Universe level at that point?"

"If the other party truly is Universe-level, then the Realm King sending us would be no different from hurling eggs at a rock. But if at that spacetime node the other party is not yet Universe-level, but rather at the Mystic Sky Peak, then the situation is entirely different."

"In the Realm King's eyes, our combat power approaches the high Supergod stage. Carrying out a task like this, it is not necessarily impossible to complete."

"Moreover, Master, you should be about to reach the Fourteenth Heaven now, right?"

"Yes..." Shi Heng nodded. After contracting the Era God Pinnacle Slaughter plus Crimson Pupil, and after Chongchong broke through to Era God, he had finally felt the opportunity for a breakthrough once more. He was still suppressing it for now.

But he probably could not suppress it for much longer.

No wonder no one had ever broken through to the Fourteenth Heaven—the further one went, the harder it became.

Shi Jin had now contracted six Era Gods. In the whole team, aside from Can Baobao, all of them had already broken through.

On top of that, with Shi Jin's beast, whose battle power stood at the mid Supergod stage, as his family's guardian beast, he could feel the opportunity for breaking through the fourteenth heaven.

If any other beastmaster were in his place, they would likely need more than ten era-level gods just to barely match the quality of Shi Tan's pets.

At the same time, the lightning tribulation... was not so easy to withstand.

Not every beastmaster had a pet lineup as lavish as Shi Tan's.

"Woo woo woo." At that moment, within Shi Ying's team, everyone was deeply concerned about what the Realm King had said.

Only the Short-Legged Cat, Turtle, and Little Ice were sullen and gloomy, as if they had missed out on a fortune, still stewing in frustration.

"Relax, there will be chances later," the Ginseng Baby babbled.

But the joyful grin on its face made it abundantly clear it was delighted that the Short-Legged Cat and the others had failed to break through.

Eleven and the others pouted.

They had thought that Ginseng Baby, last time's team champion, would be surpassed by the second team's pets this time.

What a waste of anticipation.

Shi Jin summoned Lin Dao and said, "The Void Emperor and the others should still be beyond the heavens. Call them back and tell them I have returned to the Donghuang Domain."

"Understood, Master," Lin Dao said.

In the starry sky.

The people here had not yet dispersed; even the Sun God General had already left, and still tens of thousands of warships remained in this place.

Aboard the Blue Star warship, the Void Emperor and the others were all waiting for Shi Ying's return. Just then, the Gem Cat received Lin Dao's message.

On the warship, the Gem Cat raised its head and said, "Everyone, Shi Jin is back. They are on the Realm King Star now. Let us head back too."

"Shi Jin is back?" Lin Feng said. "That was fast. I just wonder what the Realm King wants with him..."

"He is not going to take him as a godson, is he?" the Gem Cat muttered.

"What did you say?" the Foresight Motor Eagle asked.

"N-nothing," the Gem Cat said, covering its mouth. "All right, let us head back."

Best not let the Realm King's followers, like the Sun God General, overhear.

If she were put on trial over such a trifle, she would cry herself to death.

The Sun God General's power had truly frightened the cat just now—directly mobilizing the force of so many stars in the Cosmic Sea was simply too terrifying.

Ah, ah, ah, when would she ever be that strong?

Though she was a super race born of the Realm King Star, compared with the stellar lifeforms of the Xuanxiao Peak, her battle power still seemed to fall short by that tiny bit—well, a bit of a billion.

At that moment, aboard the Blue Star warship, the Donghuang group all breathed a sigh of relief.

They looked at the devastated Duel Star, at the cosmos that had already dimmed, and the great stone weighing on their hearts finally settled completely.

At least with the Four Saints Supergods dead, there were no longer any forces threatening the Blue Star lineage.

Those allies of the Four Saints families, having witnessed Shi Ying's strength, would certainly not be so idle as to make enemies of the ascendant Blue Star lineage for the sake of the Four Saints families, whose doom was already sealed.

After all, Shi Jin had now met the Realm King. Just as Shi Jin had met the Cosmic Overlord in the Overlord Territory, with no one knowing what Shi Yan, the Realm King, had actually discussed, Shi Jin now effectively carried a death-exemption token.

Within the same camp, even the Xuanxiao Peak figures like the Sun God General would certainly not dare to rashly touch a single hair of Shi Shuo without the Realm King's orders.

"The Blue Star is leaving..." As the Blue Star warship departed, the myriad races of the starry sky all took notice.

"Has Shi Jin already returned?"

Watching the departing silhouette of the Blue Star warship, the myriad races of the starry sky were all silent. These two transcendent duels could be called the greatest cross-level battles of all time.

To hunt and kill a transcendent sixth-stage foe while at the god level, and to do so with effortless ease, toying with the enemy throughout—it was simply terrifying.

To this day, people still had not learned Shi Ying's true strength.

After all, Shi Jin had more than a dozen pets. Given the current situation, who knew what trump cards Shi Yu was hiding.

Now, even Supergods of the high transcendent stages were deeply wary of Shi Jin—even more wary than they were of that Donghuang Shi Emperor.

The Shi Emperor had fallen on hard times.