"Disappointing. Utterly disappointing. The deaths of your subordinates have been well recorded after their soul lamps all went out. But for a week, you have not sent word about what you encountered. Now, you're saying you haven't even reached the site where the Ancient Flame Seed was rumored to appear? You got intercepted by foreign creatures?"
Standing before the statue of the Violet Deity, Zuo Tianqiong had his hands behind his back as he looked down on the kneeling Mu Wuyan.
His mood was already dark for having no progress on the task that the Violet Deity had left him. Now, the Grand Elder that he sent away as a punishment for his incompetence against a measly store in the Eastern Abyssal Domain had returned in failure.
Mu Wuyan coughed, splashing the pristine, violet-veined marble floor with his blood. He was still seriously injured but now that he was also being subjected to the Temple Master's Immortal Embryo aura, his injuries made every breath a battle.
