Suddenly, the woman thought of something. She waved her hand, and the space behind her began to distort.
Soon, a gate of light condensed from crimson energy materialized.
This gate of light was extraordinary — it contained an immensely powerful teleportation force.
Before long, an old man walked through the gate.
When the old man saw the tragic scene before him, his face drained of color.
The Death Star Domain — the most terrifying place in the entire Ancient God Domain. Countless powerful ancient Fierce Beasts lurked here, a place even he would never dare to enter rashly.
Yet now, they had all been slaughtered. Anyone who learned of this would be utterly shocked.
This was an event significant enough to shake the entire Ancient God Domain.
However, once he noticed the woman's figure, the shock on his face immediately faded. If this lord had taken action, then this scene was nothing to be surprised about.
He hurriedly bowed to the woman.
"My lord, did you summon me?" the old man asked.
"Didn't you say earlier that a young man named Chu Xuanyuan had intruded into your territory? What happened?" the woman asked.
"Reporting to my lord, my territory has already fallen. I've dispatched people to suppress the situation, and news will come soon," the old man said.
Hum —
Just then, another middle-aged man stepped through.
He carried himself with an imposing bearing, clearly no ordinary person — a powerful martial cultivator.
But the moment he set foot in this place, his legs went weak and he nearly collapsed in midair.
He had apparently come looking for the old man, never expecting to step into this vast expanse of stars.
And this boundless void of stars was filled with countless colossal objects — but each one turned out to be a mutilated corpse. This gruesome sight, combined with the woman's identity, left him pale-faced and weak in the knees in an instant.
"L-l-lord."
"Your subordinate was looking for Lord Chenmie. When I saw a gate of light inside Lord Chenmie's palace, I entered through it."
"I did not know that you were also here, my lord. Had I known, I absolutely would not have dared to barge in. Please spare my life, my lord — spare my life!"
This middle-aged man, whose cultivation was clearly not weak, was so terrified upon seeing the woman that he hurriedly knelt in midair. He was genuinely afraid.
"Am I really that terrifying?" the woman asked.
The old man frowned, stepped forward, and smacked the middle-aged man on the back of the head. "What are you panicking about? My lord isn't that terrifying."
"What an embarrassing display."
With that, he grabbed the middle-aged man by the collar and hauled him up. "Is there news about the territory?"
"Yes, yes... The three elders have sent word. They've surrounded Chu Xuanyuan, and it won't be long before they capture him alive," the man said.
"My lord, if Chu Xuanyuan is captured alive, how should we handle him?" The old man looked toward the woman.
"Chenmie's territory should not be something an ordinary person can enter. Yet he not only discovered the treasures within your territory but was also able to seize them single-handedly. He's quite talented."
"Don't harm him. Simply retrieve the treasures he took and erase his memories," the woman said.
The old man nodded, then looked at the middle-aged man. "Did you hear what my lord said?"
"Your subordinate understands." After bowing, the middle-aged man hurriedly retreated through the gate of light.
"Actually, I called you here for a different matter. The medium I used to communicate with the outside of the Ancient God Domain has been destroyed, but there is one thing that might... allow me to reach outside the Ancient God Domain."
"Go retrieve it for me." As she spoke, the woman tossed a map to the old man.
At first, the old man didn't understand why this lord wouldn't go herself, but once he opened the map, he realized why.
"I'll take care of it immediately," he said.
"Go ahead. I also want to learn about the situation outside the Ancient God Domain from Luo'er," the woman said.
But just then, the middle-aged man who had just left came back through the gate of light.
"My lord..." And this time, his expression looked terrible.
"Whatever happened, just say it," the old man said.
"The three elders have sent word again. They've been injured," the middle-aged man reported.
"Injured? Even they're no match for that Chu Xuanyuan?"
"Not even able to deal with a single junior from the current generation of martial cultivators. Tens of thousands of years of cultivation, all wasted — utterly useless." Upon hearing this, the old man flew into a rage.
He quickly suppressed his anger, then bowed to the woman in shame. "My lord, allow me to go deal with that Chu Xuanyuan personally. After that, I'll retrieve the item for you."
But just then, the middle-aged man spoke up again. "M-my lord, you don't need to go, because..."
"Because what? Spit it out! Don't you dare stammer in front of my lord and embarrass me!" the old man roared.
"Because Chu Xuanyuan self-detonated. It was the force of his self-detonation that injured the three elders," the middle-aged man said.
"Self-detonated?" Upon hearing this, the old man was stunned. Despite his earlier fury, extreme disappointment and sorrow now surfaced on his face.
He was someone who valued talent. Compared to the woman, he had heard far more about Chu Xuanyuan.
In truth, as long as the woman didn't order Chu Xuanyuan's death, even if Chu Xuanyuan had invaded his territory and seized his treasures, he would never have harmed the young man.
This outcome was far from what he had wanted to see.
"Didn't the three of them make it clear that we only wanted to capture Chu Xuanyuan alive? Why did they push him to such a desperate state?"
The old man roared in fury once more, but this time his anger was not directed at Chu Xuanyuan. It was directed at those three elders — the ones who had driven Chu Xuanyuan to self-detonate and die.